Global Warming, Diabetes, UVA & UVB Rays, the Tiny Ice Age

OK, I guess because as Al Gore’s seminal movie, An Inconvenient Truth, pointed out “Global Warming,” is actually kind of a dumb name for what is happening and the effect of climate change on the earth. As his documentary pointed out we will go through a small ice age – and, hey folks looks like it’s here – ironically, these seriously cold winters and strange climatic shifts are not just everything getting hotter. The ecological system, the change of ancient oceanic water streams and melting of the ice caps will create bizarre weather – giant tornados, extreme flooding, and huge droughts, crop failures and so many more horrifying things. Many of which we have yet to even figure out. So I find it odd that people who appear to have a very cursory knowledge of climate change all of a sudden think it’s bunk because the last couple of years were cold. Go check out Al’s documentary, it’s in there!

When writing my book Americhrist I did a lot of research into the subject. One of the most bizarre and fascinating links between climate change, the depletion of the ozone layer and us, was that UVB rays (which previously were thought to be harmless) were actually causing cellular damage. It appeared there was a link between over exposure to UVB rays and auto immune diseases, which were popping up like crazy and becoming more prolific.

Tonight I read an article in the May 2010 Discover magazine called Child’s Plague about a town (Weston, Massachusetts) which had this crazy frighteningly giant increase in Type 1 Diabetes, you know childhood diabetes, the one that isn’t suppose to be lifestyle driven. I knew immediately (although it seems no one else has put it together yet) the answer to that the question asked in the article, of why.

100 years ago type 1 diabetes was a 1 in 100,000 proposition. And school nurses in the town of Weston who had served for decades had never seen more than one or two students in their 2300 population at one time, and often there were none. Now all of a sudden there were 28 and counting. As it turned out the neighboring communities were also experiencing a prolific rise in the disease.

No offense to scientists, they are brilliant and I love science, however their down fall is often their lack of creativity and ability to think outside the box. They often are so specialized they look at their own tiny piece of the puzzle and expect to find answers there. This is why Einstein stood out despite the fact that his IQ wasn’t actually that high. I mean it was about 150 which of course is very high, genius level, but there are people who have and had another 50 points on him, and do nothing but write gossip columns. It was his creativity, imagination and ability to take leaps that made him so brilliant. In actually he often didn’t understand the application of his ideas, it was other people who were intellectually more gifted than he, that saw the brilliance in his ideas. Einstein was a Pisces – a highly spiritual, emotional and creative sign. In his case he was a strange merger between intellect and divine spiritual intelligence. I believe he was a channel or gateway, a visionary. A place intellect alone can not take us to.

Now back to the subject of the rise of Diabetes. It’s been the conventional wisdom that the rise of type 2 Diabetes has been due completely to diet and obesity. Granted type 2 does appear to be connected in a large part to this, however I have an uncle who is thin, has always been thin, loves to dance like a nut case, is amazingly physically fit and has always eaten healthfully. Yet, he got type 2 diabetes despite the fact that he was not at all overweight, and was literally going dancing on a nightly bases. So? What gives. It appears that the rise of both types of diabetes have been going through the roof. And although we have been led to believe 3 + 3 = 7, it’s not that simple nor accurate.

OK, back to the research I did, starting in the late 1990s, about global warming and the things scientists expected to see as a result (BTW they’ve all happened now from West Nile Virus in North America to huge floods and monster tornados) one thing stood out as a big surprise that I found on the government run Canadian and UK websites: Increased UVB rays have been linked to an increase in AUTO IMMUNE DISEASES!

So I ask those in the sciences to think outside their specialty, and look at environmental factors for why certain diseases like diabetes and Autism are happening. It is my intuition (strong intuition) that we’ll find the rise in Diabetes isn’t just from gaining extra pounds (especially type 1) but is some sort of DNA breakdown caused by overexposure to UVB rays.

I’ve always felt intuitively Autism was caused by environmental toxins, not the shots given to kids, but Mercury in the environment due to the way we manufacture coal for use in electricity. I think it attacks boys more often than girls because boys are actually (and this is scientifically true not a diss) the weaker sex (in terms of the way they are put together chromosomaly).

Food for thought and discussion, perhaps a nudge to someone out there able to use it.

Many blessings to all,

Denise

Twit(ter) and Swine Flu

I didn’t mean to sound to cavalier about the swine flu. People have died from it. I just listened to an NPR broadcast about Mexico City shutting down all its schools until May 6 because of the outbreak. I’m glad everyone is taking this seriously, however, because they are it’s been my intuition all along that this will be contained pretty well. I have heard that it jumps species so this was part of the freak out over this particular flu. With all the trouble in Mexico I don’t see why anyone would want to vacation there for the time being anyway, so it seems they are probably more isolated than they would have been 10 years ago and this will also help contain the epidemic, although it has been found in New York, CA, Scotland and I think there was a case found in Spain. Again though every time I concentrate on it I don’t get any crazy feeling. 

Although I have been feeling there is something brewing behind the scenes and once I figure it out I’ll let everyone know. I’ve had some weird dreams and odd visions but haven’t quite figured them out yet. I get the sense that what I’m picking up is more long term, over the next 5-10 years. To me the scariest news I’ve heard in a long time was the admission by scientists that global warming is exponentially worse than any model they have come up with. There is talk that the ice caps will be gone in as little as a decade, some think even 5 years, some even sooner. I heard one scientist say that there was a chance most Antarctica would be melted by this summer but that seems a bit early, probably not by as much as we’d like to think though. We are really poised here for a serious extinction level event and it’s not even newsworthy. Sometimes things are so scary we can’t even look at them. I’m thinking I need to get more involved in the politics of global warming. If anyone knows of a good, effective organization to participate in post it on the blog.

OK, and I”m glad some people like twitter. Perhaps it works under certain conditions. Unfortunately, every time I read anyone I knows stream, it makes no sense to me. They are either talking about something completely out of context that perhaps they’ve been tweeting about for days or it’s about something extremely banal. I really hate small talk. And at least in my estimation twitter is like global small talk. But then again I live in LA so perhaps if your friends are all academics and are insanely brilliant it might be interesting. My friends are all artist/writer/comedians and actors so they have a tendency to ramble about stuff that I would get them not to talk about in a normal conversation. I have a way of deflecting boring small talk, because I have about as much tolerance for it as I do flees. But perhaps this is just my problem.

Many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

PS : The celebrities who twitter (at least the people I know who fall under that category) are actually really twittering. Why? I guess because most of them like exposure and attention. The more the better, think the character of Jenna on 30 Rock and Tracy Morgan’s character. They really are kind of typical of the actor type personality. Not that there aren’t brilliant, deep and intense actors out there, just not as many as they (the actors) would like you to believe.