New evidence now updates and confirms a column I wrote in June 2014 that some or all of the highly publicized melting of western coastal Antarctic glaciers may be caused by seabed volcanoes rather than having much or anything to do with climate change...
Geological evidence suggests that the Antarctic coastline which is now covered with ice was ice-free only 6,000 years ago.
Much more recently, in 1513, a Turkish sea captain named Piri Reis was able to chart open coastline waters. A 1922 article which appeared in a South Australia newspaper prudently observed, "We are now, it is believed, slowly approaching another warm epoch, when, if it becomes universal, affecting both hemispheres together, the ice will again melt, and the sea rise to its ancient levelWHILE THE PIRI REIS MAP SHOWS NO SUCH THING, AND THE SUBMARINE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY FLUX IS 100 TIMES TOO SMALL TO MAKE THIS RANT INTERESTING, BELL'S SPONSORS ARE ANOTHER MATTER -- BEFORE THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE HE WORKED FOR RYOICHI SASAKAWA:-
The last of Japan's A-class war criminals has died
In the land where most people do their utmost to pass unnoticed, Ryoichi Sasakawa stood out as a monster of egotism, greed, ruthless ambition, political deviousness and with a love of the limelight equalled in his time only by his fellow right-winger Yukio Mishima
In 1931 he started publishing the right-wing National Defence magazine and founded the Kokusui Taishu-to (Ultra- Nationalist People's Party). In 1932 he became the leader and organiser of the nationalistic Volunteer Air Corps. Sasakawa and his followers adopted black Fascist-style uniforms, and eventually the party had 23 branches all over Japan. This gave Sasakawa a chance to show himself off in the style of his heroes Mussolini and Hitler...
SASAKAWA WITH MUSSOLINI, 1939
when Japan formed the Manchukuo government, he and his right-wing associates immediately muscled in on ... the opium trade, buying the drug from Manchurian, Mongolian and Middle Eastern sources and transporting it to Shanghai...
When MacArthur's GHQ ordered him to report to Sugamo Prison on 12 December 1945... He was so delighted to be designated an A-class criminal that he arrived at the prison one day early... preceded by a brass band blasting out the "Gunkan Battleship March".
He became obsessed with the project of introducing motorboat racing (and gambling) to Japan when he got out of Sugamo. This provided funding for international scholarly exchange, academic surveys and guest forums graced by leading intellectuals ... his hangers-on wanted him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize"
Postscript: In 2005 the FOIA surfaced Sasakawa's Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal dossier ,which was updated until his death
