Just 10 days before the Panstarrs comet is due, its perihelion date has been changed from April 17 to March 10. This means that in 8 months of tracking, astronomers were still off by a month. Panstarrs is a small comet and won't be visible except just above the horizon around dawn in the northern hemisphere, but still, you'd think that it would have been as precisely tracked as other comets. Hopefully, there are no mistakes on Isod.

In January, the polar vortex broke down. This is a mass of air that normally rotates around the North Pole. It will often break down in late February or early March, which is what causes very cold arctic air to slide south and collide with warmer air beginning to move up from the south. This results in blizzards and northeasters in the US northeast and the Canadian maritimes. However, this year, it broke down earlier than ever before observed, which is why so much cold air has appeared further south than normal.

The result is that, while record low temperatures are being recorded in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, the arctic is experiencing record heat. This is not only causing frightening outgassing of methane, but also spectacular ice melt and glacial destabilization in Greenland. Should the Greenland glaciers slide into the ocean, the result will be a dramatic increase in sea levels worldwide, with an average increase of twenty feet.

This video shows the calving of a gigantic berg off the floating face of the Ilulisat glacier in Western Greenland, one of the largest calving events ever recorded.

Chris Dane Owens, who produced my book videos, sent along a link to composer Aeone's website. She did our music. I have been looking over her and Chris's work, and it is just wonderful. There are three music videos, and they are all stunning. You can reach them via her website, Aeone.com.

Last night in our chat room, the subject of the Shroud of Turin came up briefly, and one of the chatters pointed out some of the striking similarities between the marks on the Shroud and those on the Sudarium of Ovieto, which is supposed to be the cloth with which Veronica wiped the face of Jesus, or perhaps the cloth with which his face was covered before he was placed in the tomb.

I've been thinking a great deal about Jesus over the past couple of days, because of the fragment that has been revealed that suggests that he had a wife. This goes against Catholic belief, but that doesn't concern me. In fact, why wouldn't he have had a wife? And children. And as far as the virgin birth is concerned, scholars believe that his actual birth month was probably September--that is to say, during Virgo. Thus the 'virgin birth.' (His birth is celebrated in December in order that it would replace all of the many pagan solstice celebrations that took place starting four days after the solstice, when it was certain that the sun was indeed returning from it's long winter sojourn.)

I've had an interest in the Shroud ever since I met Fr. Peter Rinaldi and the original team who did the first study of it. In all the years of debate, I have yet to see a successful debunking of the Shroud, and now these correspondences with the Sudarium further support its authenticity.

For example, the nose of the Man of the Shroud is exactly 3 inches long. The nose on the face that was wiped with the Sudarium was also three inches long. And the blood on both is type AB.

Here is the Sudarium link our chatter mentioned, from Shroud.com.