Futurist John Jay Harper discussed how Solar Cycle 24 marks the start of a disastrous cycle for our climate and civilization. The new solar cycle, which according to experts is currently under way, indicates that solar activity — sunspots and solar flares — is likely to begin increasing. Harper said the activity will reach its peak on or about the year 2012, in agreement with the Mayan calendar and other end-time prophecies.

Harper expects Solar Cycle 24 to trigger a series of cataclysmic events. "Solar flares have been equated with flu pandemics, with increased earthquake activity and underwater volcanism," he explained. Harper said Greenland's ice cap will likely melt, forcing additional ocean water toward the equator and causing a disruption in the axial tilt of our planet. He said an electromagnetic pole shift will occur as well.

The disruption to our agricultural, economic, and telecommunications systems will put us back into the pre-industrial age, Harper forecasted. All is not lost, however, as Harper believes these events will lead to an integration of science and religion into a single truth — the idea of energy transformation. He said many will survive the apocalypse because of their ability to link into a unified mind field.

D.B. Cooper Suspect

First hour guest, attorney Galen Cook, provided an update on the D.B. Cooper case. After a previous Coast interview on 11/25/07, Cook said he received emails from a man in Utah who said his father, a former U.S. Army Green Beret and paratrooper, had identified himself as the infamous aircraft hijacker.

The family provided Cook with a photo of the father and he noted similarities between this photo and a 1972 FBI composite drawing of Cooper (pictured, right side). Cook expressed hope that witnesses who were on the plane with Cooper, including flight attendants Tina Mucklow, Florence Schaffner and Alice Hancock, and passenger William Mitchell, would contact him about the photo and possibly ID the man pictured in it.