Signs. Everybody wants signs of the times. Things spelled out for them. To make it easy for them, so they think. But when signs are present, they are ignored. Jesus spoke to the Pharisees and people of Israel about their demand to see signs. When they are there to be seen, if only people would sincerely look, listen, and recognize what it is they are seeing, or hearing. As He, God, the Messiah, was in their presence and while they saw Him, heard Him, and some even knew He was the Messiah, they chose to ignore Him. Deny Him.

So, what good are signs if they are ignored, or if not ignored, due to fear, ignorance, or utter disbelief interpreted incorrectly? To fit a more comfortable and widespread narrative.

Men and women, in all their accumulated knowledge and rapidly increasing knowledge [you want a sign? There’s one right there…] men and women, in all their accumulated knowledge, become more foolish and ignorant the more they learn, or think they are learning correctly.

Anomalies abound.

I have long contended and voiced openly that people who gravitate to one viewpoint, which ends up being an extreme, usually founded upon misinformation they have accumulated, their political leanings, and such — refusing to include all information, all available sources, thus they cannot no matter who they are, what their IQ might be, who they might know, where they went to school, blah, blah, blah reach an accurate point from which to stand to see clearly. To UNDERSTAND.

To UNDERSTAND, a person must take into account genuine statistics, as authentic and real as possible in the bias all people have upon entering something [though this is denied, it’s ingrained by culture, life, it’s natural and something which must be fought against continually] but to UNDERSTAND an individual must keenly observe and gather as accurate information as possible that is generated by the world —- WHILE POSSESSING ABOVE ALL A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW. Which, if you are one of those rare folks, and it is a rarity indeed! According to the most accurate and recent data, only 4% of people possess a Biblical worldview. Imagine that.

Anyway — a Biblical worldview is imperative. Why?

Well, as mentioned earlier, most folks gravitate to one camp, one side or another, and rigidly encamp there. Unyielding. Unthinking.

Most folks are either firmly entrenched in the “Oh, it’s horrible! What WE are doing! WE’RE killing the planet! It’s going to be the end of the world! We must act now about all this global warming and climate change to save the earth!”

Or… the other camp, sitting around the wood-burning campfires roasting their marshmallows and weenies, are adamant climate change deniers.

Well, the climate is changing. That can’t be denied. But it isn’t all due to burning fossil fuels, the internal combustion engine, plastic straws, air conditioning, and antiperspirants.

People are the reason. But not due to what is being blamed by all the screaming heads, finger-pointing lunatics, and they are that. And worse.

Yes, it’s due to what men and women do. Worldwide.

Yet all the thinking regarding this is about as narrow, dull, and short-sighted as could be.

The main reason things are rapidly changing? Visible things, weather patterns, storms, all the noise and nonsense, all the babel going on?

Not due to the culprits being singled out for these changes. Not the main reason things are changing as rapidly as they are, as dramatically as they are — OR APPEAR TO BE.

No, want to know the main source for the changes? The main fuel on earth responsible is…

Man’s and woman’s sin.

Yes, men’s and women’s increased sin.

Not only has the population increased, which is not truly the main problem, although evil people such as Bill Gates and others desire, and openly speak of the need to remove billions of people in order to “save the earth,” but an even greater increase in wickedness, evil — sin — has accompanied the population increase.

The following are two scientific pieces from the latest research. Anomalies. Perplexing and confusing and confounding all the so-called best and brightest. Imagine that.

As the southern ocean current changes course for the first time in recorded history, a major impact event on every ocean, on every aspect of life on earth — this occurring near Antarctica — all the babel from all the so-called experts and their lap dummies in the world of entertainment, sports, and pretend journalism of the global warming and Antarctica disappearing, Antarctica ice is actually increasing! Causing all the so-called experts much consternation, confusion, and cramping in their teenie tiny dead souls.

Because they fail to take God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the whole Holy Bible, the spiritual realm, and Bible prophecy into account. Until and unless that is done, being confused, confounded, perplexed, grappling for answers, and the equation always changing, the information not matching up to expectations will continue.

Want to know how it’s going to get in the near future? Well, unless and until picking up a Holy Bible and reading it, studying it, praying to God for understanding of what is read, meditating upon what is read — deeply thinking about it in conjunction with what is seen, known, and heard? There can’t be any REAL UNDERSTANDING.

The writer of one of the articles below asks the question: “Who knows what Antarctica will do next?”

God knows. Jesus knows. The Holy Spirit knows.

Many finding themselves here now may well scoff and deny, refusing to believe, but THEE ONE TRUE GOD WHO created all things known and the invisible, has in the past stopped the sun in the sky. He’s actually moved the shadow on the sundial BACKWARD:

“And this is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing which He has spoken: Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.”

Isaiah 38:7-8

Isaiah 38

He’s caused the world to flood, sparing only 8 people. He’s withheld rain for years. All due to the sin levels of men and women on earth, in various places on earth.

I realize most will laugh at this. Consider me naive, uneducated, a yokel, an ignorant man.

So be it. Whatever.

How about this?

Eventually, it’s all going to end for everyone. Either by physical death, or if a true obedient believer in Jesus, and living when He comes to gather His to Him, via the Rapture — at that point, let’s compare notes and see who was more on the right path, okay?

Of course, if you’re not a born from above, born again from within faithful disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ, you won’t be able to compare notes with me, as we’ll be in very different places.

But, you’ll still finally, although tragically, come to the understanding you should have come to when having the opportunity to join me, and many others…

Read on…[two articles below]…

Ken Pullen, Monday, July 7th, 2025

Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

July 5, 2025

Reprinted from InteliiNews

A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” tipping point in the global climate system.

The development, which was confirmed by Spanish marine scientists at El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, has triggered widespread alarm among climate scientists due to its potential to accelerate global warming and destabilise weather patterns worldwide.

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase,” said climatologist Ben See in a post on social media.

The collapse involves the deep overturning circulation in the South Atlantic — part of the global conveyor belt of ocean currents — which typically pulls cold, nutrient-rich water up from the ocean floor and drives planetary heat distribution.

The study, published on July 2, identifies a collapse and reversal of the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC) in the South Atlantic — a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

This current system plays a crucial role in regulating global temperatures and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. The ICM’s data show that the flow of the DWBC current reversed from northward to southward for several consecutive months in 2023 — the first such event in 30 years of continuous monitoring.

“This is an unprecedented observation and a potential game-changer,” said physicist and lead author Dr Marilena Oltmanns, who warned the changes could “alter the Southern Ocean’s capacity to sequester heat and carbon.”

According to the ICM-CSIC, the reversal is likely linked to an ongoing weakening of the Antarctic overturning circulation, a deep-ocean process driven by the formation of cold, salty water masses near Antarctica. That system has slowed by up to 40% since the late 1990s, and the new findings suggest it may be destabilising regional ocean dynamics more rapidly than expected.

There has been a lot of speculation that the whole AMOC (otherwise known as the Gulf Stream), could come to a halt. The AMOC brings warm water to Europe from the equator, and when it stops flowing that will lead to a mini-ice age in Europe with winter temperatures dropping by 10-30C. While scientists are 98% certain that the AMOC will stop flowing by 2100, recent studies suggest that the collapse could come as soon as this year, or at least in the next few decades.

The ICM report warns that the reversal of the DWBC could also unleash vast amounts of carbon dioxide currently trapped in deep-ocean reservoirs. The reversal will undermine the ocean’s role as a carbon sink, which currently absorbs about 25% of all anthropogenic CO₂ emissions.

“This could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries,” the report said. Such a release would likely obliterate existing climate targets, as the additional emissions would overwhelm current carbon budgets and render mitigation strategies based on gradual reductions, obsolete.

“The planet is sending us increasingly clear signals that we are crossing critical thresholds,” the ICM warned, characterising the event as a shift from “chronic climate stress” to “acute systemic breakdown.”

The reversal threatens to weaken the ocean’s crucial role as a carbon sink — one of the Earth’s key natural defences against rising atmospheric CO₂ — and will also dramatically disrupt global weather systems, sea level patterns, and marine ecosystems.

The Mediterranean is as hot as bathwater

The event coincides with an unprecedented marine heatwave in the Mediterranean. A Spanish metrological buoy recorded a sea temperature of 31C on July 4 – as hot as a lukewarm bath. The northwestern Mediterranean Sea has recorded a temperature anomaly of +6.21°C above the 1982–2015 average, part of a pattern of record marine heatwaves that scientists say are reshaping entire ecosystems.

The northwestern Mediterranean Sea is currently 6.21°C above the 1982–2015 average, creating what scientists have called “bathwater” conditions in a historically temperate basin. Warmer surface temperatures could further stall or disrupt ocean currents, feeding a dangerous feedback loop of warming and current instability.

While ocean circulations have shifted in the deep past due to glacial cycles, the current reversal is the first to occur in modern times due to anthropogenic climate change. Researchers now warn of increased risk of abrupt changes in monsoon patterns, fisheries collapse, and a rapid sea-level rise in the Southern Hemisphere. They are calling for immediate global attention and a reassessment of climate adaptation strategies in light of what may be a new and more volatile climate regime.

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase,” said climatologist Ben See on social media.

The reversal of the current will bring cold water up from the deep in which is trapped CO₂. That means the reversal, “could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries,” the El Institut de Ciencies del Mar said.

“The planet is sending us increasingly clear signals that we are crossing critical thresholds,” the Institute added.

Antarctic Ice Growth Leaves Scientists Scratching Their Heads

July 6, 2025

By Marcel Kuhn

Reprinted from Climate Cosmos

Picture this: you’re watching a melting ice cube, and suddenly it starts growing back. That’s essentially what happened to Antarctica between 2021 and 2023, leaving climate scientists completely baffled.

The ice sheet gained mass from 2021 to 2023 at an average rate of about 119 billion tons (108 metric tons) per year, with the ice sheet gaining approximately 108 gigatons per year, according to NASA satellite data. This shocking reversal happened while the rest of the world was breaking temperature records.

The discovery came from researchers at Tongji University, who analyzed satellite gravimetry data from NASA’s GRACE and GRACE-FO missions. Between 2021 and 2023, the AIS experienced a record-breaking increase in overall mass, driven by anomalous precipitation accumulation, the AIS gained mass at a rate of 107.79±74.90 Gt/yr.

It’s like watching your freezer grow more ice during a heat wave – completely counterintuitive and absolutely fascinating.

Let’s talk about the shocking statistics that have researchers doing double-takes. From 2002 to 2010, global sea levels rose by 0.20±0.16 mm per year due to moderate ice loss from Antarctica at -73.79±56.27 gigatonnes annually, then during 2011-2020, global sea levels increased by 0.39±0.15 mm annually with ice loss nearly doubling to -142.06±56.12 gigatonnes per year.

The acceleration was scary enough to make climate scientists lose sleep. But then something incredible happened – the trend completely flipped.

During 2021-2023, global sea level rise was offset by 0.30±0.21 mm annually, as Antarctica experienced a net mass gain of 107.79±74.90 gigatonnes per year, with that growth enough to temporarily offset global sea level rise by about 0.3 millimeters per year. While 0.3 millimeters might not sound like much, in the world of sea level rise, that’s huge.

Antarctica basically hit the brakes on global sea level rise for a couple of years.

Four Glaciers That Completely Changed Their Minds

The most dramatic turnaround happened in East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region. The most notable gains were in East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region, including the Totten, Denman, Moscow University, and Vincennes Bay glacier basins, which had been losing mass at an accelerating rate from 2011 to 2020 but now appear to have partially recovered.

These four glaciers basically went from being the problem children of Antarctica to the star students. Here’s what makes this story even more mind-blowing: The four key glacier basins exhibited mass loss intensification with a rate of 47.64±8.14 Gt/yr during 2011-2020, with this accelerated mass loss primarily driven by two factors: surface mass reduction (contributing 72.53%) and increased ice discharge (27.47%).

These glaciers had been hemorrhaging ice for nearly a decade, then suddenly decided to start packing it back on.

The secret behind this ice growth lies in something called atmospheric rivers – imagine massive corridors of moisture flowing through the sky like invisible superhighways. Atmospheric rivers often coincide with extreme precipitation events and account for up to 11% of annual precipitation totals, despite making landfall on just ~3 d yr⁻¹, with these long, filament-shaped atmospheric features transporting large quantities of water vapour meridionally.

They’re basically nature’s own delivery system for dumping massive amounts of snow on Antarctica. What’s particularly wild is how these atmospheric rivers work.

Among the primary drivers of extreme snowfall events are atmospheric rivers, which only make landfall about 3 d per year in Antarctic coastal regions but contribute 10%–20% of the total annual snowfall to the AIS each year, with ARs causing intense precipitation in short periods of time and accounting for 11% of the annual surface accumulation. It’s like having a firehose of moisture pointed at the continent for just a few days each year, but those few days make all the difference.

The amount of snow that fell during this period was absolutely unprecedented. Total net accumulation of snow, known as the surface mass balance, has been far above average for the March 2024 to February 2025 period, by nearly 200 billion tons, with net accumulation of snow far above average for the year ending in February 2025, helping reduce the ice sheet’s net contribution to sea level rise.

Research stations across Antarctica were literally being buried under the white stuff. Scientists working on the ground witnessed this phenomenon firsthand.

Workers at the McMurdo Station reported having to constantly dig out buildings and equipment due to unprecedented snow accumulation throughout 2024, with ice core drilling operations relocated multiple times because rapidly accumulating snow was making access impossible, while the Halley Research Station documented snow drift formations so large they created entirely new landscape features. It was like nature decided to give Antarctica a massive snow makeover.

Here’s where things get really weird: warmer ocean temperatures are actually contributing to this ice formation. Atmospheric rivers have been dumping unprecedented amounts of snow across the continent’s interior regions, with research showing that snowfall in central Antarctica increased by 40% compared to the previous decade’s average, as moisture-laden air masses carry water vapor from increasingly warm oceans and deposit it as snow when they hit the ultra-cold Antarctic atmosphere.

The process is like nature’s own air conditioning system gone into overdrive. Some research stations recorded snowfall events that broke records standing for decades.

Some research stations recorded single snowfall events that deposited more than three feet of fresh snow in just 48 hours, breaking records that had stood for decades. It’s as if the atmosphere decided to dump a winter’s worth of snow in a single weekend.

What’s particularly fascinating is that much of this growth is happening in the continent’s interior, far from the coastal regions where most ice loss typically occurs. The European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 mission detected significant thickness increases across the Antarctic Plateau, with some areas showing gains of up to 15 centimeters per year, coming from laser altimetry and radar that can detect even tiny changes in ice surface elevation, with the Ronne Ice Shelf gaining substantial mass between 2023 and early 2025.

The continent’s heart was literally growing thicker with ice. The satellite data revealed something even more surprising.

The satellite data also revealed that some glaciers that were retreating have actually begun advancing again, moving forward at rates not seen since the 1990s. It’s like watching a movie in reverse – glaciers that had been backing up for decades suddenly decided to march forward again.

The Antarctic Peninsula, long considered the poster child for rapid ice loss, has shown some unexpected signs of stabilization and even growth in specific areas. The Antarctic Peninsula has shown some unexpected signs of stabilization and even growth in specific areas, with the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which made headlines when it calved a massive iceberg in 2017, steadily thickening since late 2023.

This is the same ice shelf that scientists had been watching with growing concern for years. The recovery happened faster than anyone expected.

Think of it like a patient who was on life support suddenly getting up and running a marathon. The speed and extent of the recovery has left scientists scrambling to understand what’s really happening down there.

While the ice sheet was growing, sea ice around Antarctica was setting records for completely different reasons. NSIDC reported that the 2024 Antarctic maximum was 77,000 square miles above the 2023 record-low extent, but it was 598,000 square miles below the average maximum extent from 1981-2010, with the 2024 winter maximum so far outside the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state.

It’s like having a split personality – the ice sheet gaining mass while sea ice hits near-record lows. The contrast is mind-boggling.

Winter 2023’s Antarctic sea ice was at its lowest level since satellite measurements began, with a new study showing how unlikely this would be without man-made factors, as Antarctic sea ice plummeted to the lowest point on record. Scientists are trying to figure out how Antarctica can simultaneously be breaking records for ice gain and ice loss in different areas.

The key to understanding this weird weather lies in something called blocking patterns. This study identifies a prevalent occurrence of blocking events in East Antarctica, with the genesis of these blocking highs typically facilitated by the intensification of Rossby waves within the circumpolar westerlies, demonstrating that the contribution of atmospheric blockings to total annual precipitation increases from coastal to inland, with blockings responsible for at least 15% of total accumulated snowfall and 30% of extreme precipitation events over the East Antarctic plateau.

These blocking patterns are like traffic jams in the atmosphere that force weather systems to dump their moisture over Antarctica. The atmospheric dynamics are incredibly complex, but the result is simple: more snow.

It’s like having a giant atmospheric funnel that channels moisture from around the globe and dumps it all on Antarctica at once.

Before anyone starts celebrating, scientists are quick to point out that this doesn’t mean climate change has reversed. This increase is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed, with the overall trend one of substantial ice loss on the continent, as while there have been some recent ice gains, they don’t even begin to make up for almost 20 years of losses.

Think of it like a ski slope with a small jump – the overall trend is still downward. The gains appear to be temporary and linked to unusual weather patterns.

Scientists warn that this shift doesn’t mean the climate crisis is over, with the gains linked to unusual precipitation patterns, which may be temporary. It’s like getting a temporary reprieve from a chronic illness – welcome news, but not a cure.

The stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to these four glaciers that showed such dramatic recovery. The complete disintegration of these four glaciers could potentially trigger a global mean sea level rise exceeding 7 meters, with their pronounced ablation patterns already constituting a critical climate warning signal, warranting greater scientific attention to their stability.

We’re talking about glaciers that hold enough ice to fundamentally reshape every coastline on Earth. It’s like having four ticking time bombs that suddenly decided to defuse themselves, at least temporarily.

The question is: how long will this reprieve last, and what happens when the unusual weather patterns that caused it disappear? The recent ice growth in Antarctica represents one of the most puzzling climate phenomena scientists have encountered in decades.

While the temporary mass gain provided a brief respite from sea level rise, it’s essentially a weather anomaly in the larger story of climate change. The fact that four critical glaciers could flip from rapid ice loss to significant gain within just a few years shows how quickly Antarctica can surprise us.

What makes this discovery truly remarkable isn’t just the ice growth itself, but what it reveals about the complex, unpredictable nature of our planet’s climate system. Who knows what Antarctica will do next?