Cempaka Belanda: Austrian lake offers climate haven for Dutch ice skaters

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, February 1, 2019

Austrian lake offers climate haven for Dutch ice skaters

Yahoo – AFP, Philippe SCHWAB, 1 February 2019

For over two decades, climate change has prevented the Dutch Elfstedentocht
ice skating event taking place in the Netherlands, so participants have held it on
an Austrian lake instead

For over two decades, lack of ice has prevented a hallowed fixture in the Dutch ice skating calendar. But devotees of this national obsession have found refuge in the Austrian Alps -- all thanks to James Bond.

Over the past two weeks, thousands of ice skaters -- almost all of them Dutch -- have flocked to the Weissensee lake, 930 metres above sea level in southern Austria, in order to recreate the spirit of outdoor ice skating's Holy Grail: the "Elfstedentocht".

It's a race which originally linked 11 towns in the Netherlands via frozen canals but for 22 years a lack of ice, blamed on climate change, has meant organising it there has been impossible.

Instead, hundreds could be seen gathering on the lake before sunrise earlier this week, headlamps ready and raring to set off on the 200-kilometre (124-mile) route in temperatures of minus 10 degrees C (14 degrees F).

"We searched for solutions in several European countries," says Toine Doreleijers, the organiser of the "Alternative Elfstedentocht".

The frozen Weissensee lake in southern Austria hosts the annual Dutch

skating event that covers 200 kilometres (124 miles)

"But nowhere else did we find a frozen lake that was so stable."

And it was none other than James Bond that led them to the discovery in 1987.

"When the film 'The Living Daylights' came out, there was a car chase scene on a lake and it was obvious that if this ice could support that, it could also support thousands of skaters," says Doreleijers.

The race has proved a godsend for the 700-strong Weissensee locality.

Almut Knaller, from the local tourism office, says the event pulls in 40,000 overnight stays.

"Beforehand, after Christmas, it would get very quiet. Thank you, James Bond!"

Organisers of the Dutch skating marathon got the idea to use the Austrian

Weissensee lake after seeing a James Bond film car chase scene on it

'Ice Master'

The "Alternative Elfstedentocht" has been held annually in Weissensee since 1989, while the original route in the Netherlands has only been usable once in that time, in 1997.

Harry van den Heuvel, a 56-year-old logistics manager, is one of those who've come halfway across the continent to compete.

"The true route is really something mythical. So much so that the number of participants had to be limited to 15,000," he says.

It's Harry's fourth time at Weissensee, and this year he finished behind his personal best, with a time of eight hours and 22 minutes, held up by 15 falls on the way.

Professional skaters compete on separate days and normally finish in under six hours.

"Ice Master" Norbert Jank prepares the ice on the Weissensee lake for the

two-week skating competition

The job of preparing the ice for these two weeks of competition falls to one man -- 72-year-old handyman Norbert Jank.

Jank can remember the days when he just used the frozen lake for horse-drawn sleigh rides -- since then he has been dubbed the "Ice Master" for his knowledge of the lake.

"The crew for the James Bond film asked me to ensure that the ice would hold for the shooting," he remembers.

Since then he has worked together with his team to produce 25 hectares of ice suitable for skating, encompassing the 12.5-km ring used by the Alternative Elfstedentocht.

Skating on thin ice

Weissensee owes its particular iciness to "a basin effect which sees cold air pile up on the surface of the water, and also to the fact that in general there is no fog to retain heat," says Gerhard Hohenwarter, of the ZAMG meteorological institute.

The "Alternative Elfstedentocht" has been held annually in Weissensee since 1989

But Weissensee is now also finding out that there is no escape from climate change.

"As with everywhere else in the Alps, temperatures have risen by 2 degrees C in 40 years," says Hohenwarter, adding that several other lakes in the region which used to be suitable for skating now don't freeze over reliably.

A 2018 UN scientific report endorsed by nearly 200 countries showed that climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions has caused disappearing ice and extreme weather phenomena.

Jank has seen the effects in action.

"In the old days, the ice would be around 50 cm thick, sometimes 80. Now it's more like 30. I wouldn't bet on it being fit for skating in 20 years' time."

Until then, Weissensee "allows us to keep Dutch outdoor ice skating culture alive, it's an essential part of our heritage," says Doreleijers.

But van den Heuvel still dreams of the day when the original route will reopen.

"I very much hope to be able to race on it," he says.