More Tropical Weather With Us

When you receive the Seal you will want to take better care of the earth. And you will notice signs that the earth is sick--signs like the newest indication that climate change is rapidly happening, the expansion of the tropics.

The tropical belt of the earth has expanded over the last quarter of a century, as measured by the tropical atmosphere. There could be another explanation than pollution, but the change is quickly happening.

El Nino is an ocean-atmosphere oscillation that happens around Christmas time in the Pacific Ocean in the southern hemisphere. El Nino may have been causing the change that has expanded the tropics.

Or it could be the depletion of the ozone layer causing the atmospheric changes of more tropics. Whether it is global warming or the ozone layer, one thing is certain: it is caused by pollution.

A study, published Sunday December 2 in the Nature Geoscience journal, shows that the tropics are moving much faster than predicted north and south. The tropics here are defined as tropical weather patterns in the atmosphere.

So now, more of the atmosphere is tropical in weather conditions than before, and growing at an astonishing rate. From 1979 to 2007 the tropics have expanded north and south anywhere from under 150 miles to over 300 miles.

The Hadley circulation is a system of winds moving north and south as well as east and west. They bring moisture to the rain forest and dry out the desert areas at the edges of the tropics. The Hadley circulation is increasing its traveling path.

This is one of the signs that the tropics are growing in size. And that growth is happening much faster than climate models have predicted. Scientists are amazed and even puzzled at the results of the study.

There is not yet a certain explanation for the growth of the atmosphere of the tropics. But the tropics are growing, and yet it does not mean there will be more rain forests or any similar such good news.

Instead there will be more deserts at the edges of the tropics. This will affect places like the Southwest of the United States and areas in the Mediterranean, and also parts of Australia.

Not all scientists agree that these changes are due to the effects of pollution causing global warming, because of the scale of the changes, which is much bigger than the computer models have forecasted.

But some scientists affirm this as another change due to the effects of man on the earth in the last 100 years, citing also other ways the computer models have underestimated the climate change already happening.

When you receive the Seal you belong to God. And you realize you should fight to lengthen your life and the lives of others just as you look forward to being with God soon in Heaven.

When you are sealed you begin to look at how much you are polluting the earth and what you can do to pollute less. And you look at ways you can conserve energy and use alternative forms of energy.

As a sealed person you do not "trash" the earth. The earth is precious since your Seal comes as a geotype, in the form of the fertile earth herself. Your Seal is that geotype, that garden, and so you care for the earth and nurse her back to health.