January 31, 2004: Predictions for 2004 - Sean David Morton
Podcast:The Art Bell Archive Published On: Tue Jul 22 2025 Description: Art Bell opens with Whitley Strieber discussing the breaking Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute report on the slowing North Atlantic current and its implications for a potential ice age in Europe. Strieber details the effects already visible along the American coast, where cold water pushed southward as the Gulf Stream weakened the previous summer. He warns that the American Northeast faces harsh winters and violent storms, while the Pentagon's own climate report predicts mega-droughts, 15 percent stronger winds, and breached levee systems in California.Sean David Morton joins for the second half with his annual predictions. He forecasts the Dow reaching 11,000 by July 2004 before a late-summer correction, followed by a final market surge to between 14,500 and 16,000 by fall 2005, after which he predicts an economic collapse and civil unrest. Morton connects the Iraq invasion to long-term oil security strategy, arguing the U.S. positioned itself to control European energy supplies in anticipation of climate disruption.Morton predicts the Carolina Panthers will win the Super Bowl 20 to 17 over New England, warns of a possible Mount Rainier eruption by late 2005, and discusses Bible Code research pointing toward a smallpox attack on Israel later in 2004.