The authors of the Fourth National Climate Assessment pulled no punches in issuing a dire warning regarding the inevitable consequences of leaving the rapid progression of global warming unchallenged. The report predicts that the United States economy will suffer an annual loss of hundreds of billions of dollars, along with the loss of thousands of American lives, every year by the end of the century, as the direct result of the effects of climate change.
read more

A $17 million expedition aimed at studying the effects of climate change in Canada’s Hudson Bay has been postponed due to complications brought about by climate change itself. An unusually heavy southward flow of surface ice from the Arctic has blocked the safe passage of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, on the first leg of her mission to ferry 40 scientists participating in the Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys).
read more

Carl Johan Calleman was last with us in October discussing his book the Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization, he mentioned that he had a major new book coming out this year called the Nine Waves of Creation. It’s out, it is indeed a major reconceiving of the nature of reality, and in this week’s Dreamland Whitley explores it with Carl.
read more

There’s a growing body of evidence that suggests that the structure of our universe is not as cold and mechanistic as science once thought it was: Many scientists have begun to question whether this reality is an artificial product, with its physical laws directed by some underlying intelligence, an intelligence that possibly even has an artificial nature itself. Recently, a scientist with Columbia University has gone a step further, and is postulating that previous extraterrestrial civilizations may have integrated themselves into the very structure of the universe — making reality itself intelligent in the process.
read more