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By Jim Gschwind

Like most Americans, I am reluctant to say "I told you so", but every once in a while it feels really good to have the verification to utter those words.

For years friends and residents of Florida have asked me why there have been fewer hurricanes there since the flurry of '95.  Friends and co-workers have asked me why the weather has been so harsh in Washington DC during recent winters.  In response, I always point to the 9.0 "deep earth" quake that caused the devastating tsunami in Indonesia and the huge earthquake in Chile that shifted the Chilean coast many feet.  I mention that anytime the earths land masses "shift" it causes small changes that change weather and ocean currents drastically.   The earth is not round and does not rotate without a noticeable wobble and it does not spin evenly and does not circle the sun in a circular orbit but rather in an elliptical one.  Small changes in the tilt of the earth, the speed of its spin and the orbit all come together to cause our history of ice ages and warming....not "man-made" global warming...common sense I have tried to preach  for years.  This is High School Earth Science 1, much less college or post grad-level study.  It is simply what we were all taught growing up.  Avid History and Discovery Channel watchers should also be up to speed on this.

More specifically, deep ocean earthquakes cause more climate change due to current changes which affect the weather.  An example is the very deep 9.0 Indian Ocean event which caused that very particular ocean change with the current that encircles the earth and feeds our weather here in North America with the jet stream. 

Now with the Japanese earthquake which was underwater although close to shore but very deep and earth-oriented we know the following:  A fissure (crack) 78 miles wide and over 150 miles long was formed in the ocean floor in the Pacific and Japan moved 8-10 feet, a massive shift of land mass to be sure.  Scientists already are saying it caused a speed increase of .016 of a second of the earth’s rotation, and we don't know yet the effect of the tilt and wobble rotation on the earth.  The Pacific Plate slid up to 50 feet under the North American Plate.   We also know how sensitive the ice formations in the Bering Sea/Strait are to the current that flows northeast to the sea and back down our west coast causing shifts to our jet stream.  The Bering Sea is partially responsible for the formation of ice ages.  This happens when ice fails to freeze during winter months blocking the straights, and the current is allowed to continue north into the Artic Sea vice looping back down south toward our Northwest coast.   Underwater volcanoes have already started in this trench us by the earthquake which is to be expected which will heat up the current and waters leading to the Bering Strait.

What can expect?......Few of us qualify as sufficiently knowledgeable to predict another ice-age if the Bering Strait fails to freeze up a few winters in a row but, safe to say, we can indeed expect to see more drastically altered weather "patterns" than we are used to again just as we have experienced in the past.  You won't have to wonder so much why your weather isn't like it was last year at the same time, at least now you will have an understanding and please remember that …I told you so.