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Overtone writes: Runaway Methane Release from Melting Permafrost Threatens Human Life with Extinction Within 50 Years!

By Mark Goldes*

All of us, you and I, our children, and grandchildren, are facing the biggest challenge that has ever confronted humanity: the possible extinction of all human life on earth by 2050, due to the melting of the Arctic permafrost. This is an unrecognized global emergency.

Daily, we hear dire warnings that Global Warming will produce more destructive hurricanes and the flooding of major cities such as New York, Miami and London. Large areas of Florida, and numerous low-lying countries, are facing permanent inundation due to increasing sea levels and melting glaciers and ice caps. Rising prices for oil and gas are also already a serious problem. But all these events pale before the dimensions of the looming catastrophe. If we do not quickly implement actions suited to the threat posed by runaway methane release from the melting Arctic permafrost, we may well be headed toward the extinction of life on Earth.

More than a year ago, Geologist John Atcheson described what he called a "Ticking Time Bomb," the threat to life on our planet. Huge quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, are buried in the Arctic tundra. This permafrost contains 3,000 times more methane than atmosphere. Twice before in the history of our planet, 251 million and 55 million years ago, runaway methane almost eliminated life on earth. In Atcheson's opinion, based on such prior events, a rise in global temperatures of a mere 11 degrees Fahrenheit, would likely catalyze this unstoppable catastrophe, causing these gases to "burp" into the sky. The ensuing rise in temperatures would release yet more methane, heating the Earth and seas further, and so on. There are 400 gigatons of methane locked in the frozen arctic tundra- enough to start a cataclysmic chain reaction and release of these greenhouse gases.

The first results from the most comprehensive study of greenhouse warming ever attempted (a massive effort designed by Oxford University scientists) indicates that average temperatures could easily rise beyond this figure in a few decades unless extremely deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are made rapidly. The study's chief scientist, David Stainforth, said: "Our experiment shows that increased levels of greenhouse gases could have a much greater impact on climate than previously thought." Another participating scientist said: "Even today's levels of greenhouse gases could already be dangerously high." Team member Myles Allen, an Oxford physicist, says, "The danger zone is not something in the future. We're in it now."

Heat is the problem. We must rapidly replace technology that produces thermal output with systems that do not add appreciably to the already larger-than-anticipated temperature increases. Positive alternatives include wind, solar, and a handful of other existing renewable systems. Nuclear plants and fuel cells produce heat and are, therefore, not solutions. Vehicles and power plants pose a huge challenge because every variety of fuel, when burned, contributes dangerous warmth to our atmosphere.

Ironically, had more scientists been open to examining the remarkable evidence available to them, the world might never have needed oil. Back in 1874, a Pennsylvania inventor named Wesley Gary, ignored scientific dogma and created the first of his fuel-free magnetic motors. Textbook science then, as now, denied such engines are possible. But Harvard and MIT professors visited Gary and confirmed that he had done precisely what he claimed. Two U.S. Patents were issued, and one in Canada. In 1879, Harper's Magazine carried an article about his work, ending with the comment that it might one day power locomotives.

Then in 1925, a German inventor named Hans Coler, demonstrated a small, magnetic generator without moving parts. In 1927, Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg stated: "I believe it is possible to utilize magnetism as an energy source." A decade later, Coler produced 6,000 watts of electricity from a magnetic generator, and Hitler's admiralty supported his efforts. At the time, there was no comprehension as to the source of the energy. Coler wrote: "These fundamental researches have made the first real and large breach in the citadel of present scientific belief." His laboratory was destroyed by an Allied bomb near the end of WWII. Coler survived, and cooperated with British Intelligence, which published a Classified Report in 1946 about this astonishing achievement. The Report was declassified in 1979 and is now readily available on the Internet.

Laboratory progress in such systems is currently confirming these claims, and new, fuel-free, magnetic systems are emerging which appear capable of providing the necessary power, and can be ramped up into mass production quickly enough to head off our urgent crises.

Such a crash program needs to be implemented to speed this remarkable new technology to market. A few systems already promise to replace car engines, and some may scale to a megawatt, or more. Capable manufacturers must be enlisted in this effort everywhere on the planet. The massive production of arms achieved during World War II demonstrated that industry can respond to emergencies in ways hardly imagined prior to the crisis. This worldwide manufacturing capability does exist, and must be utilized rapidly and to the fullest extent practical.

Every hour of every day counts. The time for urgent action is now. Survival demands that we open our minds to unprecedented possibilities and act, intelligently, but without delay.
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*Chairman & CEO of Magnetic Power Inc., Sebastopol, California
www.magneticpowerinc.com

© 2006 Magnetic Power Inc. All rights reserved.


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