World Anomalies 1995-1998

Year Event Description
1994 and earlier Wireless Technology Background

While 1995 certainly was not the start of wireless proliferation, it does serve as an ideal start breakpoint as prior to this year wireless was more limited to business / military use, specialized use (HAM / CB radios, walkie-talkies, fixed car phones), fixed TV and AM/FM radio, and low power analog home cordless phones. The heretofore hidden effects of these will be covered elsewhere.

The advent of small handheld analog, then digital cellular-mobile phones (From Nokia & Motorola circa 1993-1996) heralded the dawn for the masses of continual handheld use anywhere. This was the "mesmerizing magic." We've also chosen 1996 as this is when the magnetic north pole accelerated sharply, by doubling in speed. Understanding our magnetic field is key to understanding weather chaos. The magnetic north pole had already maintained a sustained year to year increase in speed to 10 miles per year from the mid-1970s, slowed down for a few years, then never looked back from 1986 onward.

Also - understanding the difference between digital and analog technology is important to understanding human (and animal) health effects.

Mobile Phone Subscriptions Growth Chart

Our World in Data: Mobile cellular subscriptions by country
1995-1996 Digital Mobile Phones Digital cellular-mobile phone adoption boom and START of worldwide mobile phone love affair. Cellular-mobile phone microwave radiation quickly climbs to NEVER SEEN BEFORE heights via thousands of cell towers.



November 1995: None other then Mr. Global Warming himself, Al Gore, completed the ceremonial first call in the USA. In a twist of irony he joined Apple's Board of Directors a number of years later.

November 1995: PCS network launched in Baltimore-DC area; first system in nation offers digital challenge to cellular phone industry (Baltimore Sun)

March 1996: Pac Bell completes first call on its PCS network (RCR Wireless)

March 2003: Former Vice President Al Gore Joins Apple's Board of Directors (Apple Newsroom)
1995 Child Heatstroke Deaths Spike Sharp increase in children dying from vehicular heatstroke. Deaths jumped from 13 (1994) to 27 (1995) - more than doubling - then sustained at high levels: 40 (1996), 32 (1997), 37 (1998). Prior to 1995, deaths averaged ~9 per year (1990-1994). Suggests baseline parental attention and awareness collapsing.

Kids and Car Safety: Child Vehicular Heatstroke Fatalities By Year (1990-2024)
1995 Florida, USA Red Tide The 1994-1995 period marked a new and UNPRECEDENTED high in both scale and duration for red tide. It also marked the beginning of a continuous run of annual and frequent red-tide episodes in Southwest Florida, with 2010 being the only exception.

NOAA Red Tide Bloom Severity Index - Southwest Florida 1953-2023 Hover over image to enlarge - Dramatic shift to annual blooms beginning 1994-1995

Herald Tribune: Red Tide (2006)
Save the Manatee Club: Red Tide Impact
PBS: Massive Red Tide Bloom Takes Over Southwest Florida
GCOOS: Red Tide Indexes
1995 Chicago Heat Wave Over 700 deaths during July heat wave - coincided with Motorola iDEN digital PCS testing in Chicago area prior to September 1996 national launch



Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019 Documentary)
1996 Magnetic North Pole ACCELERATION UNPRECEDENTED acceleration of magnetic north pole movement starting 1996 - from ~14 miles/year (~23 km/year) to ~28 miles/year (~45 km/year). This new speed was sustained in 1997 and beyond, reaching a peak of 36 miles / year in 2011, and remains as of 2025, around ~25 miles+ / year. Earth's magnetosphere fundamentally destabilized. Data visualization



Average distance moved in:
1600s (1600–1699): 2.9 miles/year (~4.7 km/year)
1700s (1700–1799): 4.8 miles/year (~7.7 km/year)
1800s (1800–1899): 3.3 miles/year (~5.3 km/year)

1900-1949 average: 6.1 miles/year (~9.8 km/year)
1950-1999 average: 9.1 miles/year (~14.6 km/year)
2000-2024 average: 30.7 miles/year (~49.4 km/year)


1900s+: The image below shows the average distance moved per decade
Magnetic North Pole Movement (with RF Technology Timeline)
Magnetic North Pole Movement

Magnetic North Pole Movement by Decade (1900-2024) Hover over image to enlarge - Magnetic pole acceleration correlates with RF deployment

The official explanation is that the acceleration is due to earth core changes. AI will give you this same answer, because it just references "experts." Once you understand what magnetic fields are, then how they are influenced by radio waves / microwave radiation -- you'll have to ask yourself what is more likely. That the core just started to coincidentally change in 1996 in a way that it hasn't for hundreds of years, or that it's because of the huge spike in microwave radiation that WE created and spread.
1996 -60° Below Zero!
Minnesota, USA
On February 2, 1996, Tower, Minnesota recorded -60°F (-51°C), shattering the state's previous record of -59°F set in 1899. This remains the coldest temperature ever recorded east of the Mississippi River. The extreme cold lasted several days, with temperatures hovering between -55°F and -58°F before the record-breaking day.

Tower Soudan Historical Society: 60° Below Zero
1996 Major US Flooding Multiple catastrophic flood events: Pittsburgh/Upper Ohio River Basin (January, $48M damage), Pacific Northwest (February, $500M damage) - chaotic moisture redistribution patterns BEGIN
1996 Great PNW Flood February 1996

1996 Blizzard of 1996 January 1996 paralyzing blizzard hits East Coast - snow so deep Philadelphia had to dump it off bridges into rivers. Part of chaotic weather pattern beginning 1996. AccuWeather article
1996 Canada Bark Beetle Outbreak START of bark beetle-induced tree death in British Columbia



1996-1997 is mentioned at the 12:20 mark of this documentary.

Qualcomm: BC Tel Mobility moving full speed ahead with commercial service launch - September 1996
1996 USA Bark Beetle Outbreak START of sustained UNPRECEDENTED SCALE of bark beetle outbreak in USA.



2019 local news video references a start in 2000, but actual is 1996.

KUNC: Battling the Bark Beetle in Rocky Mountain National Park
1996 Digital Phone Headaches Widespread complaints of headaches, fatigue, dizziness from digital cell phone users reported in Australia, UK, Sweden (100 complaints), and US - November 1996 CNN report

CNN: Cell phone headaches - Nov. 12, 1996 (Web Archive)
PDF Backup
1996 Tasmanian Devil
Facial Tumors, Australia
FIRST observed 1996 in northeast Tasmania. Unexplained emergence of fatal disease in isolated species suggests environmental factor (UV-C penetration) causing cellular damage/immune system collapse.



Save the Tasmanian Devil Program: About DFTD

Official Explanation: Researchers characterize this as a CONtagion. An infectious cancer.

Reality: Once again, the sudden emergence in this manner points to an environmental issue. In the MW Earth framework this could be 1) Increased UV (B or C) light could be compromising the immune system of Tas Devils and 2) Increased UV (B or C) could be modifying something they eat / increasing some other factor - that prior to mid 1990s - their immune systems handled just fine. Telstra, the dominant mobile carrier in Australia in the 1990s began GSM service in April 1993 in Australia. But, it wasn't until much more radiation was put in the air all over the world did this "disease" emerge.

The Tasmanian Devil has successfully survived for tens of thousands of years in Tasmania (Extinct on mainland Australia). Then suddenly in 1996....
1996 Gun Ownership Becomes Toxic UK: First GSM network 1992. Australia: First GSM network 1993. Mercury One2One (UK) and Orange (UK) GSM networks launched 1993-1994.



March 1996: Dunblane, Scotland - A gunman killed 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School before killing himself, the DEADLIEST school shooting in UK history.
The Conversation: Dunblane, 25 years on: how a mass school shooting changed British gun laws
Smithsonian Magazine: How the 1996 Dunblane Massacre Pushed the U.K. to Enact Stricter Gun Laws

Australia: Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania (April 1996, 35 killed) led to strict gun law reforms.
1996-2006 Kirkland Pedestrian Accidents 62 people injured or killed in crosswalks in Kirkland, Washington from 1996-2006. City launches "Take It to Make It" pedestrian safety campaign. Kirkland is the spiritual home of the wireless revolution for the entire world - home to Bluetooth SIG headquarters, Craig McCaw's cellular empire, and now major Google outpost, SpaceX Starlink manufacturing facility, and Amazon Project Kuiper base. The rise in attention problems presages the later proliferation of "safety" features in vehicles (lane departure warnings, blind spot monitors, automatic braking) - technology sold to compensate for the baseline attention degradation caused by wireless radiation.

Kirkland Pedestrian Safety Campaign Card - Front Kirkland Pedestrian Safety Campaign Card - Back with Statistics
1996-1998 Healthcare Cost Surge START of massive increase in U.S. healthcare costs during this timeframe

US healthcare spending rocketed $900 billion between 1996 and 2013. Healthcare spending increased to $2.1 trillion in 2013, and has now reached $3.2 trillion, which equates to 18% of the US economy.

US Healthcare Spending Surge Since 1996
1997-1998 Butterfly Collapse Butterfly populations decimated per Xerces Society data - populations NEVER recovered despite expanded monitoring sites

Western Monarch Butterfly Count 1997-2024

Official explanation: Milkweed, etc....

Western Monarch Count Data
Source: The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation - www.westernmonarchcount.org
1997 Sweden Health Crisis Abrupt nationwide health degradation starting autumn 1997 across all 21 Swedish counties (October 1997-January 1998), correlating precisely with GSM 1800 MHz digital mobile system rollout. Long-term sick increased 250% from 40,000 (1997) to 140,000 (2003). Load injuries increased 100%. Suicide attempts among youth increased 30% (1998-2001). Prostate cancer increased 32% since 1997. Traffic injuries in Stockholm tripled. Health degradation strongly correlated (R² = 0.82) with average mobile phone output power by county. Study by Hallberg & Johansson published in European Journal of Cancer Prevention.

Research: 1997 - A Curious Year in Sweden
1997 April Fools' Blizzard
USA
A massive blizzard struck the northern Plains and Upper Midwest from March 31 to April 1, 1997, dumping record snowfall across multiple states. The storm brought unprecedented spring snowfall, with some areas receiving over 2 feet of snow. The blizzard caused widespread disruption and highlighted the increasingly chaotic weather patterns emerging in the late 1990s.

1997+ Birth of Gen Z Record high LGBT, sexual confusion. 1997 - 2012 = 15 years. Lifetime exposure to digital radiation. Other co-factors contribute (like microplastics), but the primary system weakening factor is digital radiation via wi-fi (Wi-Fry), bluetooth, GSM, CDMA, and DECT cordless.

Americans Identifying as LGBTQ by Generation Gen Z LGBTQ Statistics LGBT Identification by Generation
1997 Vancouver Island Windstorm UNPRECEDENTED January 1997 catastrophic windstorm blows down ancient old-growth trees in MacMillan Provincial Park (Cathedral Grove), Vancouver Island. MacMillan Provincial Park info

MacMillan Provincial Park - Impact of Natural Forces Sign Cathedral Grove - Fallen Trees from 1997 Windstorm Cathedral Grove - Path with Fallen Trees Cathedral Grove - Windstorm Damage Cathedral Grove - Fallen Ancient Trees

Some of the fallen trees were anywhere from 300 to 800 years old!

Cathedral Grove Historical Documentation
BC Tree Hunter: The Towering Spires of Cathedral Grove
1997 Colorado Windstorm October 24, 1997 - UNPRECEDENTED freak windstorm with 120 mph winds flattens 6 million trees in Routt National Forest near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Hurricane-force winds knocked down trees like dominoes across 20,000 acres (25 miles long, several miles wide), many of them old growth. Forest Service staffer described it as looking "like a blast zone" with fallen timber creating impenetrable walls 20 feet high.

High Country News: Freak wind storm flattens 6 million trees
Mid-1990s Sudden Oak Death Sudden Oak Death (California) first reported mid-1990s, killing millions of oak and tanoak trees. Pattern suggests weakened tree immunity from environmental stressors (RF exposure, UV-C penetration from compromised magnetosphere) allowing opportunistic pathogens to take hold.
1995 Ash Dieback Ash Dieback emerges in Europe (Poland 1992), devastating ash populations across the continent. Pattern suggests weakened tree immunity from environmental stressors (RF exposure, UV-C penetration from compromised magnetosphere) allowing opportunistic pathogens to take hold.

The video below shows the modeled spread in California.



Official Explanation: Infection.
Reality: The infection mantra is not true like virtually every other use of the word "infection." It's activation! NOT infection! Environment! Terrain!
1997 Northern California Flood January 1997 - largest in Northern California's 115-year record, $1.8 billion in damages, 48 of 58 counties declared disaster areas



California Department of Water Resources: 1997 New Year's Floods
KCRA: Timeline: A look back at Northern California's disastrous flooding in 1997
Yuba Water Agency: 1997 New Year's Flood
1997 Hong Kong Bird Flu FIRST documented case of H5N1 avian influenza crossing over to humans in Hong Kong

Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
1997 US Diabetes Spike Significant increase in US diabetes rates documented by CDC, marking the BEGINNING of a sustained upward trend. Graph shows sharp acceleration starting mid-1990s.

CDC - Number and Percentage of U.S. Population with Diagnosed Diabetes, 1958-2010
1997 Rise of Autism Sharp increase in autism beginning in EXACTLY 1997.

Official Explanation: TBD

Autism Center: Autism Through the Years
1997-1998 Super El Niño Strongest El Niño event on record up to that point, marking the FIRST use of the "Super El Niño" label

In January 1997, probes gathering information on deep water temperatures discovered an area of unusually warm water, centered around 150 meters depth, across the western half of the Pacific Ocean. About 150 m (490 ft) below the surface, water temperatures were about 3 °C (5.4 °F) above normal, signifying that an El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event was beginning. By this time, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography had forecast that an ENSO was likely to take place during the latter half of 1997.

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - 1997-1998 El Niño
1997-1998 Indonesian Forest Fires Among the largest forest fires in the last two centuries of recorded history - tropical rainforest experiencing catastrophic burning
1998 Quebec Ice Storm January 1998 UNPRECEDENTED catastrophic ice storm - millions without power, 35 deaths in Canada, over 100mm of ice (around THIRTY times normal) in one week. Hydro-Québec infrastructure destroyed.



The Montreal area typically receives freezing rain between 12 and 17 times a year, averaging between 45 and 65 total hours of rain. However, a freezing rain storm usually lasts only a few hours and leaves a few millimeters (fractions of an inch) of accumulation. It renders roads and sidewalks slippery, causing minor traffic collisions, but road crews use de-icing material to take care of it.

Prior to the 1998 storm, the last major ice storm to hit Montreal (1961) deposited around 30 to 60 millimetres (1.2 to 2.4 in) of ice. However, the 1998 storm left deposits twice as thick, downing power lines all over the region, damaging most of the trees in Montreal, and leaving streets covered in a thick, impassable layer of ice.

Hydro Quebec: The January Ice Storm
CBC: Ice storm of 1998 a reminder of Quebec's resilience
1998 Mass Coral Bleaching FIRST recorded mass coral bleaching event on the West Coast of Australia and Great Barrier Reef

Extent of Global Coral Bleaching Events History of Global Coral Bleaching Events
1998-1999 Mt Washington, Vancouver Island, Canada
Record Snowfall
1998-99 season recorded 1835 cm (605 inches) of total snowfall on Mount Washington, Vancouver Island - the deepest season on record at the time, and still the second deepest over 20 years later. This extreme coastal moisture dump is indicative of atmospheric patterns redistributing moisture away from inland areas, concentrating precipitation on coastal mountains rather than penetrating deeper into the interior. This moisture redistribution pattern presages the later mega forest fires in BC interior as less snowpack reaches inland forests.

Mount Washington Snow Stats Sign - Record Snowfall 1998-99
1998 USA School Shootings (4+) To many people today, school shootings in America might seem to be "As American as apple pie." But while there have been incidents throughout history, the turning point was in 1998, before the more famous Columbine.

March 1998 Westside Middle School - Jonesboro, Arkansas (5 killed).
May 1998 Thurston High School - Springfield, Oregon (4 killed).


KAIT8: 27 years later, remembering Westside school shooting victims


YouTube: Thurston High School Shooting Coverage
OPB: Wounded student, 24 years after school shooting in Springfield, Oregon

Here is some analysis done with SuperGrok. [will add hover zoom images later]

USA: First GSM network 1995.

Pattern continued with Columbine High School massacre in April 1999 (15 killed). USA held steady with existing gun laws. Marked the beginning of an unprecedented era of mass shootings coinciding with population exposure to digital radiation and behavioral/neurological impacts.

The 1989 Stockton, CA (5 children killed) and 1992 Olivehurst, CA (4 killed) shootings were earlier notable incidents but they were not followed by a sustained pattern. The pattern emerged after 1998 with the infamous Columbine, CO event.

Security.org: A Timeline of School Shootings Since Columbine
1992-1998 Starbucks Explosion Starbucks stores increase from ~165 (1992) to ~2,500 (1998) - creating mass caffeine dependency culture as baseline energy levels collapse. Note: caffeine is a pain reliever, masking underlying health degradation
1993-1994 Mindfulness Boom Mainstream mindfulness/meditation explosion following 1993 PBS special and 1994 bestseller - mass adoption of mental health coping mechanisms
1994-1997 Red Bull Energy Drinks Red Bull expands to Germany/UK (1994), enters US market (1997) - launch of modern energy drink culture and extreme caffeine consumption
1996 OxyContin/Opioid Crisis BEGIN OxyContin FDA approved and launched 1996 - sales explode from $48 million (1996) to $1.1 billion (2000). Opioid epidemic origins trace to late 1990s as pain levels surge
Mid-1990s Marijuana Use Reversal After declining through 1980s-early 1990s, marijuana use among American youths and young adults increases substantially starting mid-1990s - self-medication for pain, anxiety, insomnia as baseline function collapses. Marijuana use declined throughout the 1980s, reaching its lowest point in 1992 at just one-third of the 1970s peak (12.1% for high school seniors and 4.4% for the general population). The mid-1990s then saw rapid increases, with use among high school seniors nearly doubling from 11.9% in 1992 to 23.7% in 1997.

- National Academies: Cannabis - Prevalence of Use (1975-2014)
- BMC Public Health: Marijuana use trends in US ages 12-25 (1979-2016)