Any mention of “climate” over the past, say, 40 years, has always been fraught with the effects of “good” or “evil” thinking. No matter where one lands on the spectrum of how much humans can effect changes in Earth’s climate, it is instructive to step back from personal fears or certainties and evaluate the phenomenon of “climate change” as political force. Historically, political movements have centered on efforts that will produce changes that most adherents will experience if successful. Fighting over abortion, for example will, within 9 months at most, yield a result. The result might manifest in a few hours or days with the cessation of creation, but most certainly in about 270 days or so. People can rally around reality and changes thereto.
Climate, however, that changes over decades and centuries, is a little harder to “pin down” when it comes to fears and certainties, so the people who have concocted the worst fears into a soup of political manipulation based on events that most followers, or fellow travelers on the anthropomorphic climate train, will never experience… are to be commended for their amorphous success. Regardless of the fears that drive them, the only “changes” that their followers will enjoy, as it were, are losses of freedom and personal sovereignty. Remarkable.
What if science revealed a change humans have made that has the actual potential to completely revamp Earth’s climate and even its geography? Would it cause true international cooperation to reverse or counter it? Or, would it hasten the takeover of national identities and create the one-world socialist Hell that many climate alarmists are in favor of? Unfortunately, these are not idle questions, anymore.
Scientists – geologists and others – have noticed tiny aberrations in Earth’s rotation. Several years ago they calculated that the filling of the 3 Gorges Dam in China had changed the location of enough millions of tons of water, plus the huge volume of concrete in the dam structure, itself, to perturb the Earth’s rotation around its axis. Wow… who knew our engineering could have that large an impact? Fast forward to 2022.
The Earth is wobbling a little more. Scientists have studied the wobbles in part because the magnetic north pole has been shifting eastward much more rapidly than expected, whereas it had been slowly drifting westward for some years prior. There appears to be a little more rotational wobble connected to the shift of the poles and, knowing that human engineering is massive enough to affect the wobble, scientists have been looking at other possible hydrological effects.
It turns out that it’s human activity that is putting the stability of the PLANET(!) at risk, and it has nothing to do with our “carbon footprints.” Global warming, freezing, the melting of glaciers, will all be as nothing if the processes that have resulted in the current rotational disturbances are not reversed and replaced with something else. “Oh, come on,” you say. “How can anything be worse than climate change? What ‘processes’ are you trying to scare us with?”
Water… which is to say, moving water around – putting it into storage or taking it out of storage. We talked about the Three Gorges Dam, which changed flowing waters into stored waters. At the other end of process, we take water out of the ground – out of huge aquifers – essentially out of the largest storage systems there are. Humans need water and public health and prosperity require “clean” water, not always available from surface, recycled waters. Humans need food, too, and food requires water. The best soil is rarely where the most fresh water is, or so we believed until we figured out that the biggest fresh-water lakes were under the ground. Hi-Ho, irrigation! … and the original “green revolution” that actually does a great deal of good.
However, just like putting a small bit of weight on the side of a top, the earth is wobbling as it spins at 1,000 miles per hour due to our rearrangement of fairly large amounts of weight. When huge volumes of water come out of the ground they become surface water that either evaporates or runs off into the sea. Where they were becomes much lighter. For India, for example, the volume of lake Erie leaves their aquifers every two years. That is, 50.2 Million tons of water is pumped to the surface every year! From there it runs off ultimately to the Indian Ocean, spreading its weight across the globe. Even for Mother Earth, that starts to add up. And in 10 or 20 years it’s enough to change her balance. But, so what? We don’t even notice the wobble. Here’s where the warning comes into play.
At some point, and that point is not certain, but we are heading toward it, the wobble will, literally, and in a destructively short time – perhaps a couple of days or so – cause the earth to roll over to a new axis of rotation that is “balanced” with the changes we have made. That is, the heaviest parts of the “top” that is our planet, will shift to the equator, and that new equator will be halfway between the new poles, north and south. The lightest parts will have shifted closer to the poles. And it won’t take long for these shifts to occur. What will the surface of the earth experience?
Among other cataclysms, there will be earthquakes of immeasurable amplitude, and in lots of places that haven’t been along known faults. Unfortunately, most people will be unable to pay attention to earthquakes because of the super-hurricane-strength winds that precede the largest tsunamis ever imagined: hundreds of feet high, as the oceans slosh over most of the land. It is hard to predict any region that will be able to ride out the Great Polar Shift with only survivable damage. One set of predictions places Europe at the new North Pole. Not much of a growing season after the waters subside, there. Chicago, in that scientifically and mathematically considered postulate, would be on the new equator. God forbid it all.
These natural disasters are far more likely than any of the fears with which “climate change” acolytes have twisted so many people’s politics. Will the Great Shift happen in the next 10 years? No one can tell. What can be told is that, barring a huge change in water management, worldwide, the shift will eventually happen. What can we do?
There are three major goals in Prudence’ view: 1) Cease draining aquifers, everywhere, and allow them to refill – takes a century or more – this will require a global shift to ocean desalinization, the production from which will have negligible effects on weight distribution. 2) Gradually eliminate giant dams everywhere, replacing them with simpler, smaller, flood-control dams and intentional flood plains. 3) Engineer and re-engineer nuclear power-plant designs so that hydro-power can be replaced and exceeded, facilitating economic advancement for all nations… cleanly.
There may be a fourth goal, as well: thanking our lucky stars – and God – that we paid attention to warning signs in time to avoid our own extinction.