I like to skate on outdoor ice. Safe thick ice is rare in this part of the heartland, so I skate on thin ice on a shallow lake/pond that was dry 3 years ago. Since then, a lot of fish have been washed in in floods of the nearby creek and have multiplied. Remember the 5000 blackbirds etc that fell from the sky in Arkansas in December? Well, I was skating on the shallow lake and theer were some fish that were having trouble getting oxygen because the lake was too shallow. then, in the week before New Years it largely dried up and there were thousands of dead fish frozen into the ice. I posted on that here.

So, I sent an email to the anonymous reader discussion on the local newspaper here, saying that this was the end of times and that people should sell all their possessions and cash in and send the cash to me to fund my research. It was not published.

Who knows about the fish: what day was it? There have been a couple of X class flares and magnetic storms in the last couple of weeks (I posted on these). I don't know whether the fish navigate using magentic fields: it is possible that some animals do (bees?).

Anyhow, full moon and close moon can make larger ocean and earth tides. The triggering effect if any has been shown to be weak, and maybe localized to certain types of geologic areas like the spreading centers (Pacific-Juan de Fuca).

Berklund has been doing his thing for a long time. It has to stand up to statistical analysis. Apparently, it does not.

Chris