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Finally, the general media is beginning to acknowledge the existence of a problem with the Gulf Stream. But they and the scientists who communicate with them are still bending over backward to minimize public alarm.

Here is a typical approach, this one from CNN, based on comments by a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:

“For a dramatic climate change to take place, “A whole bunch of pieces have to fit together. Certainly this is one of them. We need to keep paying attention, and people are doing that,” he said.

“Woods Hole is conducting research that measures the path and temperature of some parts of the Gulf Stream.
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My wife recently published a diary entry about herviews on the Terri Schiavo case, which elicited a ton of email response. Like my recent journal on the Rapture, or the non-existence thereof, the vast majority of the letters were positive.

We receive ten thousand emails a month, and our volunteers try to at least open all that are not obvious spam, from known lunatics, or have no subject heading. Those all go without being opened.

Over the past years, more and more of your emails have become more clear-headed, rational and, frankly, moderate in tone. At this point, that’s what we get most of the time. Often, letters lead to Dreamland or Mysterious Powers programs, news stories, and Insight articles.
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I have been trying for some time to write the predictions journal that I promised in December, but frankly, the news is so uniformly bad that I have hesitated even to approach the subject.

I am no Nostradamus, incidentally. I extrapolate, I do not prophesy. Over my writing career, there have been a few odd incidents of unintentional prophecy, such as the identification of a Korean-made car in Nature’s End as the Hunyadi, some years before the Hyundai was introduced.
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The much heralded ABC special on UFOs has come and gone. Predictably, it was more of the same, a large number of lies sprinkled with a few truths. At least it wasn?t as relentlessly negative as such programs have generally been in the past. But people like Peter Jennings and his producers are cursed with the belief that they can understand?or already do understand?what they are looking at. The reality is that the UFO phenomenon is the most complex event in history, and a cursory examination of its surface by a few overworked and ill-informed television producers is not going to succeed in any way whatsoever to come to any truth about it.
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