Are Animal Deaths Sign Of The Apocalypse?

Are Animal Deaths Sign Of The Apocalypse?

Transcript by (www.newsy.com) BY TRACY PFEIFFER You’re watching multisource global video news analysis from Newsy. Ever since thousands of red-winged blackbirds dropped dead in Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, apocalyptic conspiracy theories have been spinning. But now- the plot thickens- with at least a dozen similar incidents reported around the globe. BBC 40000 dead devil crabs washed ashore in Kent, England BBC: Dozens of jackdaws fell dead on a street in Sweden. World Fishing & Aquaculture: 150 tons of farmed red tilapia died in Vietnam… CNN: And an estimated 2 million fish washed up on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. So is it the end of the world? Scientists say no, but it seems they can’t convince everyone. A writer on Examiner explores the end-of-days prophecies from Nostradamus, who wrote about the reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles in his 2012 predictions. “…scientists say that the poles have shifted before and do so once every 250000 years. Some scientists believe we are in the middle of this transition right now … Could the shifting of the poles be something that is causing the dead birds and dead fish around the globe?” And Australia’s Daily Telegraph points to another version of the world’s end — the Christians’ Rapture, which one “Bible decoder” says will occur May 21, 2011. Meanwhile, scientists have come up with plenty of explanations and theories for the incidents. For example, an American wildlife disease expert tells PBS, over the last two …