Melting Glaciers Scientists’ latest news tell about the melting, quicker and quicker, of the polar cap( melting glaciers). Two American scholars, after being back from an arctic expedition, found, instead of the expected 2 metre cap, a thin layer of ice, a very fragile one. The thing is even more surprising if we think, till six months before, the cap was still entire and this lets us suppose that the heating of the temperature is causing the melting glaciers at a speed quite superior to the predictions. What scientists found is an inner sea of about one mile diameter inside the zone surrounding the centre of the Pole, overflown by a thick flock of sea gulls feeding on plankton: the latter could proliferate thanks to the filtering of sun rays through the thin glacier, supplying food and support to birds.
Nostradamus (Prophecies and Forecasts VI) Also Nostradamus defines this ability as human: “prophet is him who, my son, can see things far away from the natural knowledge of all creatures”[1], but later, even if he admits there are people who can predict the future in a natural way, he asserts that only God can infuse this talent into men ” I don’t pretend to state this ability (a natural one) of seeing in the future cannot be applied by other people. I affirm that the perfect knowledge of events can’t be obtained without a divine inspiration. The whole inspiration has its main impulse from God the Creator, then from the fate and finally from nature”[2].
Machiavelli (Prophecies and Forecasts V) Human mind is said to be used only minimally and if it were in its totality, it would reveal unexpected abilities. One of these is the ability of foretelling the future. In this sense it is necessary to make a clear distinction between the ability of recognizing presages and “the divine gift” of prophecy.
Ozone Hole (Prophecies and Forecasts III) In 2001 NASA researchers discovered an Ozone Hole as large as three Americas over Antarctica. Also North Pole, which had been untouched since that moment, resulted to be without the protection of the Ozone stratus for a large tract. All this doesn’t worry at all scientists who are sure that, sooner or later, maybe in a hundred years, Ozone Hole will be repaired.
Figures of world population FIGURES[1] 8 MILLION people made up the whole world population 10 thousand years ago when man lived only on hunting and spontaneous products of the land. 16 MILLION were the people who formed world population less than 2 thousand years later, thanks to the discovery of agriculture. 500 MILLION were the people who made up world population in the year 1000; 3 centuries later European population had reduced of one third owing to epidemics of Black Death which went on in Europe for 3 more centuries
