January 25, 2004: Open Lines
Callers weigh in on how the United States and Canada would respond if Europe suddenly became uninhabitable. Topics range from opening borders for European refugees to the geopolitical consequences of shrinking oil supplies during a global climate catastrophe. Art poses the central question repeatedly: would America help, or would it slam its borders shut? Several callers report unusual cold water temperatures off the U.S. coast as possible early indicators.
Between climate discussions, callers share encounters with shadow people in the Arizona desert, a man describes a car passing through his vehicle at a red light, and Art reads new Darwin Award entries. He expresses frustration that no major U.S. network has picked up the Woods Hole story despite its scientific weight.
Key Moments
Gulf Stream shutoff: Younger Dryas warning: Art reads the Woods Hole/IGBP findings that North Atlantic salinity changes since 1990 may be flipping the Gulf Stream toward shutdown - the same trigger as the Younger Dryas 12,700 years ago.
Art: 'It's already begun.': Reacting to the Gulf Stream story breaking within hours of airtime, Art notes the hair-on-the-neck moment of seeing his and Whitley Strieber's book scenario corroborated, and asks the audience how civilization would react.
Caller: troops of shadow people on the border: A Texas caller describes hunting near the border at night and seeing not illegal immigrants but vertical, walking shadows - a whole troop of shadow people that pass between him and his brother, followed by a much larger second wave.
Caller: branded abductees and missing time: A caller reports that he and several friends share an identical quarter-sized dot pattern behind the neck, then describes losing 90 minutes near a government radar site and waking with bruised injection sites.
Caller: horned figure in the doorway: A caller describes a solid five-to-six-foot figure in a black graduation-style gown wearing a mask with two vertical horns, appearing repeatedly in his doorway in spring 2001. Art is incredulous he could fall asleep afterward.