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the beams of the Panversal Radiance striking the earth as you’ve been taught in Contemplation and Presence Class. Imagine these infrared waves striking the clouds. Some of their heat is absorbed, some bounced back into space again. Some penetrates all the way to the surface of the earth before it is reflected back again. But this heat that is reflected back is trapped by the carbon dioxide, and it can’t escape, it can never return to the Plasmic Void of Lightlessness from which it came. It stays trapped.
    STUDENT : And what does that do to the earth?
    CLIMATOS : Well, if you think about it, the heat will eventually build up and up and up, won’t it? And the earth will get warmer and warmer and warmer, won’t it? Now, I want you to imagine something else, and you may find this very hard to picture, but at one time the earth had snow and ice at its poles!
    STUDENT : You mean, like ice in the icebox?
    CLIMATOS: Exactly, Lux Jonathon, only you must imagine it much much thicker, kilometers thick, in some places.
    STUDENT : Wow! How could that be?
    CLIMATOS: It had built up over thousands and thousands of years. You must understand that at the time of the Break, the earth was a very much cooler and drier place than it is now. This part of Yu where your Chapter lives used to have ice and snow every winter, before the Break.
    STUDENT : Snow?
    CLIMATOS: Frozen water vapor. Soft and cold. A little like ice cream.
    STUDENT: Wow!
    CLIMATOS: And some parts, up at the poles, were so cold it used to stay beneath the freezing point of water all year round. So the ice never melted and it just built up year after year after year. Now, you have to imagine what happens when the earth gets warmer. Imagine all that snow and ice melting, all the millions of millions of tons of ice turning back into water, running into the sea. There was so much water locked up in the polar ice caps, Lux Jonathon, that when it melted, the oceans rose by almost a hundred meters all over the world. Can you imagine the water reaching a third the way up the side of this People House? That is how much the sea rose. Cities were drowned, whole tracts of land submerged, coastlines radically altered. The people who escaped the flood could hardly believe how much the world had changed.
    STUDENT : Was this the Great Flood from which we were all saved by the light beams of Sygma?
    CLIMATOS: It is, Lux Jonathon.
    STUDENT : Shee. I always thought it was all made up by grown-ups. So it really happened.
    CLIMATOS: It really did. And there were other effects of the global heating. As the world changed from cool and moist to warm and wet, all the established weather patterns changed, too. You may find this a bit hard to understand, but they had all been based on the polar ice caps and their pressure barriers, and when the poles vanished, the high pressure zones vanished, too. There were terrible storms, hurricanes and lightnings and droughts and downpours as the weather was all chopped and changed about. Deserts became jungles, farmlands became swamps, winds reversed direction, ocean currents switched about, rains failed, there were crop failures, people starved.
    STUDENT: What’s that?
    CLIMATOS : It means that people died because they had no food.
    STUDENT: What?
    CLIMATOS: Yes, incredible as it may seem, they had nothing to eat, and there was no one who could give them any because in the end the big international food producers and sellers that had once been so rich and evil found themselves with nothing to give.
    STUDENT : So, what happened?
    C LIMATOS: We happened. The Compassionate Society happened. It took all the big, selfish corporations and monopolies and transformed them into the Seven Servants so that instead of serving themselves, from then on they served everyone by making sure that everyone had what they needed to make them completely happy.
    STUDENT : So, that’s why it rains so much.
    CLIMATOS: Yes. Because of the greed and wickedness of selfish and hurtful