Day Zero

FIRE-EARTH Blog’s Symbolic Countdown: Day Zero

March 12 marks the last day of Blog’s Symbolic Countdown. FIRE-EARTH Models show your world has now entered a new phase.

Mass die-offs resulting from the combined effects of human impact on the planet and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could start soon.

Related Links

• Mass Die-offs
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs

Humans Have Destroyed Half the World’s Trees

More than 15 billion trees are cut down each year: Report

Academics led by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies say they have prepared the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a global scale, which reveals there are approximately 3.04 trillion trees worldwide.

The authors estimate that approximately 46% of the trees have been wiped out since the start of human civilization, and that 15 billion trees are cut down each year.

The report is sold for $32, and only the abstract is available free online.

Disaster Declared in North Dakota

Agricultural disaster declared in 22 of 53 ND counties

Multiple disasters caused by extreme weather events including spring snowstorms, frosts and freezes in late spring and early fall, excessive rain, flooding, ground saturation, landslides, strong winds, hail, tornadoes, unseasonably cool spring temps, scorching summer heat and weather-related insects and crop diseases, USDA reported.

Disaster Calendar 2012 – January 14

[January 14, 2012]  Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.  SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,523 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History

• North Dakota, USA.  USDA has declared 22 of 53 North Dakota counties as agricultural disaster areas due to extreme weather events including spring snowstorms, frosts and freezes in late spring and early fall, excessive rain, flooding, ground saturation, landslides, strong winds, hail, tornadoes, unseasonably cool spring temps, scorching summer heat and weather-related insects and crop diseases, which occurred from January 1, 2011, and continues.
  • The following ND counties have been designated as Primary Disaster Areas: Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Logan, Morton, Slope and Stark.
  • ND counties designated as contiguous disaster areas include Billings, Hettinger, Mercer, Dunn, Kidder, Oliver, Emmons, La Moure, Sheridan, Golden Valley, McIntosh, Sioux, Grant, McLean and Stutsman.
  • “North Dakota farmers have experienced several disaster conditions over a long period of time, which have caused major losses to a wide variety of crops such as corn, wheat, sunflowers, dry beans, pasture and forage crops,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
• Montana. Fallon County in the neighboring state of Montana has also been designated as a disaster area because it’s contiguous.
• South Dakota. Corson, Harding and Perkins counties in SD have also been added to the disaster declaration because they’re contiguous.

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• Mass Die-offs

• 2010 Disasters [Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
• Mega Disasters: 2011 SIX TIMES MORE DISASTROUS THAN 2010
• 2011 Disaster Calendar
• 2012 Disaster Calendar