World In Peril
The Story Behind the Discovery
of Imminent Global Change
About World In Peril
World In Peril was written in 1992 by Ken White. He is the son of Colonel Maynard E. White, USAF, who was in the first operational unit of the Strategic Air Command. Their first operational mission was Project Nanook. Project Nanook was assessing the Soviet threat over the Arctic. They found evidence of polar wander, rapid climate change, and Earth's reshaping cataclysm. They found fossilized trees with no season rings in Norway. They found tropical corals and coal seams within 200 miles of the geographic South Pole. They found evidence of multiple mass animal deaths/extinctions.
My local library obtained this book from the U.S. Air Force Academy. For a small fee, I was able to borrow it for two weeks. I recently purchased a new print of this book from the White family.
Chapter 27 - Terrestrial Magnetism
Key Findings: The magnetic pole is not stationary. They also found multiple locations. A main central pole and two secondary poles. The secondary poles were on either side of the main one, about two degrees of latitude apart.
Chapter 28 - Clues to Cataclysm
This chapter presents historical, geological, paleontological, and magnetic evidence suggesting that Earth has undergone sudden, violent cataclysmic changes—particularly rapid shifts in climate and the positions of the magnetic poles relative to the crust—rather than slow, gradual processes.
Key Findings: Tropical coral fossils, coal deposits, and water lily fossils were found within the Arctic Circle. Similar plant and animal fossils were found in Antarctica. Prehistoric frozen trees were found to have no annual rings. These are only found at equatorial locations. Multiple alternating layers of Arctic and equatorial fossils were found at the North Pole. They also found evidence of mass animal extinctions within these layers.
Chapter 29 - Polar Wander
This chapter explains the scientific concept of apparent polar wander as the result of the Earth's crust (lithosphere) shifting relative to its stable axis of rotation, rather than the planet's rotational axis itself moving. Drawing on paleomagnetism, glacial geology, paleoclimatology, and plate tectonics, it argues that the Earth's surface has repeatedly moved thousands of miles over geologic time. These shifts explain many mysteries from Chapter 28. The chapter contrasts slow, gradualistic models with evidence of occasional rapid crustal displacements that trigger catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
Rocks retain a record of the magnetic field at the time they formed. Studies show the magnetic north pole appears to have moved thousands of miles, hundreds of times in Earth's history. Ice sheets once covered parts of Africa, India, and South America. Antarctica, northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Arctic islands once had temperate or subtropical climates with rich forests and animal life.
Chapter 30 - The Flip of the Earth
This chapter proposes a specific triggering mechanism for the rapid crustal shifts. It argues that when the north magnetic pole converges closely enough with the geographic (rotational) pole, a dramatic 'polar flip' occurs. This 90-degree magnetic shift drags the magnetized crust, causing a sudden, catastrophic displacement of the lithosphere relative to the planet's axis.
Current cosmology suggests these flips are triggered by our solar system moving through the galactic null point. This is the dusty magnetically neutral region where all stars and their solar systems exist. Our system moves through this magnetic neutral area every 12,000 years. Galaxies, and their spinning arms, have magnetically charged hemispheres above and below them.
