In the wake of President Obama’s State of the Union address just hours ago, I thought perhaps it might be timely for a different blog subject altogether.
Taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture — what about the state of our planet?
Do you remember over a decade ago in 1999, all of the Y2K media hype?
I remember watching the local TV news in Milwaukee weeks before New Year’s Eve on Dec. 31, 1999. People were actually canceling their travel plans — even to see the Wisconsin Badgers play in the Rose Bowl (Jan. 1, 2000) out of Y2K fears.
Other than the Badger’s victory over Stanford, not much else happened Jan. 1, 2000 — at least related to Y2K.
As Newsweek reported, “despite the media hype, the biggest story about the Y2K computer bug is that nothing happened. Trains didn’t spontaneously derail. McDonald’s didn’t roll back to turn-of-the-century pricing. … And the banks didn’t lose all of our money.”
Clearly Y2K was mostly media hype. But, what about the state of our planet now in 2012. Some are saying 2012 is the end of the world — is that media hype too?
Trying to avoid the commercials during the Baltimore Ravens NFL playoff game last Sunday I was “flipping through the channels”. I ended up watching a few minutes of a Nostradamus special on the History Channel.
Now in 2012, although sometimes subtle, there are starting to be more references in pop-culture and the media to the “2012’s supposed end of the world” according to the Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, and several other groups.
But is all of this chatter for nothing? Is this going to be another non event like Y2K? Or could the date even be miscalculated? According to an ABC news report the date may be miscalculated to begin with.
And, according to NASA, there is no evidence to support an end of the earth day in 2012.
While many religious groups deem Nostradamus’ theory’s as the devil’s work, some psychics have claimed he may have been on to something.
”Experts” interviewed on the History Channel program said that some of his predictions explain many of the recent natural disasters / weather anomalies such as the earthquake/Tsunami in Japan and the other several earthquakes in 2011 including in Haiti, New Zealand, China, Argentina, Mexico, etc.
Other weird stuff like thousands of dead birds dropping from the sky in Arkansas and a volcano erupting in Iceland last year are just a couple of several weird occurrences.
Some of these occurrences have logical explanations. Just last month there were earthquakes in Ohio – but scientists believe this was likely caused by waste water fracking.
But in other cases, questions remain.
Wisconsin has had record breaking temperatures — nearly 60 degrees earlier in January. At the same time, the orange crops in parts of Florida have frozen because of temperatures dipping into the teens and 20s. There has been snow in the deep south, and on the same day it’s raining in Canada and on the U.S. side of the great lakes “snow belt.”
Not to mention, the Hurricane, Tropical Storm, D.C. quake, and tornadoes in the Mid Atlantic last August —
You have to admit weather patterns, natural disasters, and other events have become increasingly more bizarre lately, almost eerie in some cases — especially when birds are literally dropping out of the sky and dozens of dead crabs are washing ashore in England.
The History Channel program referenced above also explained that the earth’s rotation and shift of alignment over the next 11 months may be the cause these extreme events. Experts on the program also predicted several other natural disasters this year including a possible volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park.
Ask 5 different experts, you’ll get a variety of different answers. So what is the true state of our planet — Is all of this just going to be more media hype? Or, should this be getting more attention by the mainstream press?
