You think 2020 is bad? Think again. Wait for the “real” Catastrophes to kick-in — Volcanic Eruptions, Global Cooling, Crop Loss, and Famine
Many of the political turmoils of the past were brought about by solar shutdowns and powerful volcanic eruptions. One recent discovery puts the end of the Roman Republic firmly at the feet of a violent volcanic explosion in the Aleutians some 6,000 miles away.
The year 2020 looks bad, at least from a modern standpoint.
But we’re experiencing nothing compared to the catastrophes of the past.
Truly, nothing…
“COVID-19 is Killing Us”
Coronavirus may have governments and the media in a tizzy, and as a result you may be suffering under an enforced house arrest right now, but all the available data reveals the virus –thankfully- is not deadly. It hasn’t a patch on the Spanish Flu, for example, when a whopping 100 million people died out of a global population of just 1.8 billion.
On top of today’s puny numbers –fewer than 500,000 as of June 26 (note a regular flu season in the US alone can take out 60,000+)– death tolls are being inflated. Most are dying “with” the virus and not necessarily “from” it.
Furthermore, only people with serious underlying health conditions are falling ill. If you’re under 65 and otherwise healthy then COVID should concern you about as much as the common cold.
No vaccine is required — this is a scare-mongering/money-making ploy.
Next…
“Climate Change is Killing Us”
Let’s not even get into whether anthropogenic global warming is real or not. The hard facts reveal life and biodiversity on planet Earth thrive when it’s warm. The warmer it is, the more life there is — global warming is good.
The notion that “warmth is bad” is illogical, and one dreamed-up by activist-scientists desperate for a sense of purpose.
Tropical forests cover less than 12% of all land, yet they contain a majority of plant and animal species on earth. The Arctic, on the other hand, covers 10% of the planet’s land area but contains only 600 plant species, only 100 species of birds, no reptiles or amphibians, and only 20 mammals.
Plants and animals thrive in warm climates.
Warming is good for life.
It is cooling that should concern us.
Hippy-journalists and eco-politicians then ran with that original flaky climate “science”, and here we are — a dystopian reality where steps forward, progress and achievements are considered the devil, and where the political will is now to undo the wholly beneficial industrial revolution–and for what? Some futile attempt to cool the world–a plan so crazy that, even if it were possible, would cause untold suffering to not only us humans but, ironically, to all those warmth-loving plants and animals, too.
The plan is sick (or is that the point?).
As are the people behind it (or don’t they care?).
And as with COVID, it turns out that the cure is far worse than the disease.
Next…
“Racism is Killing Us”
White privilege doesn’t exist, anymore.
In the western world, life can be just as hard, unfair, and brutal for anyone and everyone.
This cannot be regarded as a racist stance.
Whereas, to suggest that my struggles have somehow been lessened solely based on the color of my skin is a racist statement.
Movements like BLM are here to divide us, not unite us — they are, as with COVID and AGW, political, tunnel-visioned movements blind to the facts and driven by nefarious agendas.
Reject them.
A revolution needs to be against the establishment, not against each-other.
Wake up to what’s happening.
The “Real” Catastrophes
Archaeologist, medieval historian, and Harvard egghead and chairperson Michael McCormick recently labelled the year 536 AD as the worst year ever to have been alive — and it leaves 2020 in its dust.
So bad was 536 AD that it even beat-out 1349 AD, the year the Black Death killed half the population of Europe, and 1918, the year when 100 million perished from the Spanish Flu.
In 536 AD, a thick fog blanketed much of the Asian continent, the Middle East, and Europe, shrouding these regions in darkness for one and a half years straight. According to natureworldnews.com, the ambient temperatures during that year’s summer decreased by 1.5 to 2.5° Celsius, contributing to that decade being the coldest for the last 2.3 millennia. Continents experienced unseasonable snowfall during this time, crops died, and many millions starved to death.
New ice analysis has provided fresh insights into the cause of the mysterious fog, and reveals a violent volcanic eruption in Iceland was the culprit. The explosion released a thick plume of ash into the stratosphere, and these particulates quickly spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere in the early part of 536 AD blocking out the Sun and causing crop failure across the hemisphere, killing millions upon millions of people. In addition, two more massive eruptions also occurred in 540 AD and 547 AD — these repeated eruptions caused untold suffering and economic stagnation in Europe for the next 100+ years, until the year 640 AD.
Still think 2020 is bad…?
Well, looking back further in time, Roman writers described unusual weather and famines in the years following Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE. Another recent study has managed to identify the culprit — and surprise-surprise, it’s another volcano, this one located in Alaska 6,000 miles away:
Ancient writers who survived the torrid months following Julius Caesar’s death describe cold weather, short growing seasons, and widespread famine around the Mediterranean, from Rome to Egypt.
They documented how starvation led to disease and fueled growing civil unrest throughout the empire in an already turbulent time.
As with the 536 AD eruption in Iceland, sulfur dioxide was blasted high into the stratosphere, and as it spread out chemical reactions turned it into other sulfur compounds that reflect solar radiation, blocking the Sun’s light and warmth. As a result, giant swaths of the planet turned almost-instantly colder, often continents away from the eruption.
A recent study of Greenland ice cores led by researcher Joe McConnell suggests the culprit is Mt. Okmok, in what is now Alaska, half a world away from Rome.
“We found the Okmok II sulfur fallout in every Arctic ice core record that we had access to, including five from all over Greenland and one from Akademii Nauk in the Russian Arctic,” McConnell told Ars. “The layer of increased sulfur concentration is about 30 to 50 cm thick depending on the ice core, and we would expect that the sulfur was deposited all over the Northern Hemisphere—but not uniformly.”
The geochemistry of that frozen ash matched layers of rock fragments, called tephra, associated with an ancient eruption of Mt. Okmok.
Known as Okmok II, the 44 BCE eruption was one of the largest of the last few thousand years, comparable to Tambora in 1815, the second largest volcanic eruption of the past 200 years, which caused The Year Without a Summer in 1816 (during the depths of the Dalton Minimum: 1790-1830).
McConnell and his colleagues predict that summer temperatures in the years after the eruption would be 2⁰C to 3⁰C cooler than usual across most of the Northern Hemisphere. That matches what those ancient writers described, and is also backed-up by proxy data such as tree rings.
The Okmok II eruption lasted from 43 BCE to 41 BCE, but its effects on the other side of the world lasted more than a decade — spring came later, fall came earlier, meaning the summer growing season fell short.
Crop failures and famine in northern Italy and northern Greece from 43 BCE through 36 BCE are well documented. And with the increasing famine came disease and a swelling of civil unrest.
Us moany modern humans don’t know how good we’ve got it.
2020 is nothing to write home about by historic standards.
But history repeats.
Powerful, civilization-wrecking volcanic eruptions of the past have been linked to low solar activity, and the Sun is currently going through its deepest solar minimum of the past 100+ years, with NASA revealing the next cycle (25) will likely be “the weakest of the past 200 years” (a return to Dalton Minimum conditions — Mt. Tambora’s eruption).
Volcanic eruptions are one of the key forcings driving Earth into its next bout of global cooling. Their worldwide uptick (along with a seismic uptick) is tied to low solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.
Of today’s reawakening volcanoes, those located in Iceland are perhaps the most concerning. It is this highly-volcanic region that is thought will be home to the next “big one” (a repeat of 536 AD…?) — the one that will return Earth almost-instantaneously into another volcanic winter.
The Sun is at the heart of all Earthly catastrophes, not Man and his inconsequential activities. Man plays about as much part in the grand climate cycles as ants on mound of dirt — we can shift that dirt; ravage the local environment even; completely alter our surroundings, but we have no say in the multimillennial will of the cosmos.
Katla, in Iceland, is the latest volcano to show signs of stirring, and has experienced sizable out-gassing of late. Furthermore, seismic activity under the large ice-covered volcano has also increased — this activity is likely caused by injections of new magma entering the chamber.
Icelandic authorities are aware of the dangers the next eruption of Katla represents, and a delegation of the volcanologists routinely meet with the Icelandic Parliament to discuss how to respond in the case of an eruption, an eventuality that is merely a matter of when, not if.
The COLD TIMES are returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
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