Planet’s climate unraveling: record heat in Denver followed by snow/Caterpillar plagues overrun villages..+more

April 3, 2011 – DENVER – A blast of winter will barrel through Colorado Sunday, just one day after Denver experienced record heat. Saturday’s strong chinook winds smashed Denver’s previous record of 76 degrees and replaced it wind a mind-blowing 84! The extreme warmth will be short-lived though as a cold front races into town Sunday morning. Ahead of the front, winds will remain strong with gusts up to 45 mph in the metro area and 60 mph along the foothills. A Red Flag Warning is in effect for high fire danger in the foothills until noon. The thermometer will reach the mid 60s early Sunday before the storm arrives, but temperatures will drop rapidly through the afternoon. A mix of rain and snow will develop around 1:00 p.m. and will then switch over to snow throughout the rest of the day. The winds will stay gusty until the late evening, but the moisture will certainly help with the Crystal Fire currently burning just west of Ft. Collins. A total of 2 to 4 inches of snow will be possible along the Front Range, including the Denver metro area. Foothill locations will see up to 6 inches. In the mountains, this storm will cause big travel problems. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect until midnight Sunday for the central and northern mountains. These areas will see 10 to 18 inches of snow. –CBS Denver

The jet stream is wild and erratic and is now wandering across the globe in mercurial swings from north to south. The climate stability which has defined the modern Age and made the green revolution possible to feed billions of people is now quickly eroding.


April 3, 2011 – INDONESIA – East Java’s deputy governor has ordered officials to prepare for possible evacuations in areas hit by a caterpillar outbreak, a report said on Friday. Saifullah Yusuf also requested authorities to monitor the situation in Probolinggo district, where villages were swamped by thousands of caterpillars, said Edi Purwinarti, the governor’s assistant on people’s welfare. “So far, the condition is not that bad yet,” Edi said on Friday. “The possibility of evacuating residents is an option if the conditions become worrying or dangerous,” Edi was quoted by Detiksurabaya.com as saying. In the past two weeks, the swarm has spread to five subdistricts in Probolinggo, with the insects crawling into homes and fields, causing skin rashes among residents. The herbivorous insects have also destroyed more than 8,800 mango trees — the district’s main agricultural product. The teams were also tasked to exterminate the caterpillars, believed to have come from the forests around Mount Bromo at the district’s border. Wibowo Eko Putro, head of East Java’s agriculture agency, said the swarm could have been caused by damage to Mount Bromo’s ecosystem after recent volcanic eruptions. Reports said the disappearance of the insect’s natural predators could also be a culprit. “A migration of the caterpillar population took place because the ecosystem on the slopes of Bromo has been destroyed,” Wibowo said. The agriculture chief said, however, that his theory needed to be verified by experts. “We are now using preventive measures such as burning trash around the mango trees to reduce humidity,” Wibowo said, adding that this would slow down the insect’s growth. –The Jakarta Globe




More warning signs- another strong earthquake strikes off the coast of Fiji
Posted on April 3, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol
April 3, 2011 – FIJI - Very strong but deep and accordingly harmless earthquake at approx. 30 km from Tuvuca. The location during such a deep earthquake is of less importance than shallower quakes. The hypocenter of this earthquake was in the hot mantle of the earth This earthquake will have been felt in a radius of several hundred km. 252 km (156 miles) W of Lambasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji. -The Earthquake Report

See escalation of geological events for Fiji





Earth, wind, water and fire- omens of catastrophe plague region of Japan
Posted on April 3, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol


April 3, 2011 – SEOUL – Volcanologists from the North cited snowfall in Gaeseong in late March as an unusual environmental change that they said was unprecedented in the relatively southern part of the communist state. Yoon Young-geun, a North Korean volcanologist, also said that following the quake in Japan, they observed underground water shaking and splashing up to 60 centimeters, with usually clean water from wells occasionally turning muddy. He said all of the abnormal events seem to be related to the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11. Many South Korean scientists have cautiously raised speculation that an eruption could take place in four to five years. They have claimed “strange signs,” including minor trembling near Mt. Baekdu in June 2002, and the frequency has increased. A Chinese institute monitoring volcanic activity at Mt. Baekdu acknowledged minor quakes which are too weak to be felt by human beings occur nearly 100 times per day. Among other indicators foreshadowing a future eruption is the height of Mt. Baekdu, which has grown nearly 10 centimeters since 2002. Scientists said bloated magma, a precondition for an eruption, is gradually increasing the height of the mountain as well as raising the temperature on the surface.

Experts say the socio-economic impact on the North in the event of an eruption would be so immense that it could pose a great threat to the isolated regime. “The North Korean regime has no capability to handle such a major natural disaster at all,” said Prof. Kim Young-hyun at Dongkuk University’s department of North Korea. “The eruption will have a negative impact on the hunger-stricken country’s crop production and even lead to the collapse of the regime.” According to a simulation analysis, a large-scale eruption at Mt. Baekdu would send millions of tons of volcanic ash into the air. This huge mass, the analysis showed, would block the sun on the Korean Peninsula for about two months, resulting in the average temperature dropping by two degrees Celsius. “It will devastate agriculture, meat/poultry farming and other parts of the food supply chain in North Korea, which poses the greatest risk to its dictatorship,” Kim said. South Korea’s weather agency has pushed to forge a partnership with its counterparts in Japan and China for more accurate weather forecasting including a natural disaster control system. Small-scale eruptions at Mt. Baekdu were recorded in 1413, 1597, 1668 and 1702 ㅡ the last activity was recorded in 1903. Meanwhile, 13 dormant volcanoes in Japan are increasingly showing signs of eruption in the wake of the March 11 quake, accord. –Korean Times

About 884 earthquakes have shaken the Japanese islands since the devastating 9.0 quake struck on March 11, 2011. As we mentioned before, Japan has entered a new period of geological upheaval. I believe it is one which will ultimately culminate in the catastrophic disintegration of the Japanese islands. Below are recaps of two earlier reports of signs of change that began emerging months ago before the 9.0 mega-thrust quake struck off the coast of Japan in March.

December – February