A record-breaking snowstorm and record cold temperatures are causing many to ask, what of the “warmest year ever?” — as wet fields prevent harvest and planting of winter crops. Start growing your own food today.
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Tom from Ohio, a retired farmer, agronomist, and wildlife observer, joins Christian of Ice Age Farmer for this latest “On the Ground” report to discuss a remarkable lack of forage for wildlife this year (no acorns, light chestnuts and berries), which likely presages one of the longest, hungriest winters in decades. We explore how the effects of natural cycles such as the Grand Solar Minimum can be unpredictable — ever heard of the billion squirrel migration? — and how we need to prepare now.
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1 in 4 pigs on Earth was lost this year (!), prompting China to release today 10,000 tons of pork from their strategic national reserves. This is the latest indicator of the systemic stress on modern agriculture, and presages further tapping of strategic reserves. Christian recalls the Great Chinese Famine and warns of the dangers of centralized, collectivist policies, and the illusion of superabundance. Canada wipes temperature data from the web, as censorship increases. Norway’s winter storm in Summer.
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As Solar Minimum-induced extreme weather continues to plague modern agriculture, we find ourselves trapped in between a rock and a hard place, with a literal army of weaponized vegans called “Animal Rebellion,” funded by Soros, aligning with Antifa and Extinction Rebellion to demand an end to animal agriculture. The media also continues to push Geoengineering to “stop global warming.” Christian breaks down how these agendas are in fact one and the same: control the population by controlling the food supply.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/15/animal-rebellion-protest-smithfield-veganism
https://www.globalmeatnews.com/Article/2019/08/23/Smithfield-Market-protest-called-a-symbolic-message-to-government
https://www.scotsman.com/news/university-removes-beef-and-lamb-from-menu-to-cut-carbon-emissions-1-5000914
https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/british-school-removes-meat-lunch-menu The study on collapse they thought you should not read – yet
NSW/QLD grain yields have been predicted at 40-50% of 10-year averages — and GrainCorp is trying to get OUT of the grains business. The Beast from the East returns! UK forecasts coldest winter in 30 years. “Alt-shrimp” and lab-grown cheese introduced as the war on real food continues, attempting to make you wholly dependent on the technocracy’s nasty lab-grown food. And propaganda rags have run away with a “Chickens Cause Cancer” headline, based on a correlation. Christian breaks it down.
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As our climate shifts in the Grand Solar Minimum, vegetable shortages are forcing canneries and processing plants to shut down for lack of product. Banks are telling customers to go to Food Banks as prices rise. China’s ravenous appetite for protein threatens Kenya’s donkeys in the wake of African Swine Fever — they are already struggling to feed their people. Canada has had a rough season, and is already experiencing frost. The signs of looming food scarcity are everywhere — Christian breaks it down.
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A Swedish scientist has endorsed cannibalism — to “Stop Climate Change” and save the world. This is the pinnacle of the unholy marriage of the war on food with the totalitarian climate agenda. Christian breaks it down, and prays that it helps to wake people up to the dark roots of these enslaving agendas.
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2019 was much colder than 2018! You won’t hear this in media. Christian of Ice Age Farmer equips you with cold, hard GDD data and intellectual ammunition in order to start conversations about how quickly conditions on our planet are changing. As the Solar Minimum forces temperatures to decline further, more and more of the planet will lose the ability to farm as we have been. This statement is based solely on cooler temperatures, and does not factor in increased cloud cover, precipitative extremes, hail storms, or still other effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays — all of which we can also expect! Start growing your own food today.
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Most coverage of the difficulties plaguing the 2019 US season has revolved around the consequences of our “wettest year ever.” Rightly so, as the flooding across the nation continues to effect a substantial (and often fatal) blow to farmers’ operations. The flooding has been widely covered in most media, to the exclusion of another important factor: temperatures are much colder this year than the previous.
While the media is less vocal about this aspect, it is no secret. The University of Minnesota shared a graphic demonstrating that this has been the coldest and wettest season since 1920.
The extent of delayed planting of the 2019 U.S. corn crop appears to be coalescing around the idea that, in general, the U.S. corn crop is around three weeks late. With that in mind, the temperature trend takes on extra urgency for the crop.
And, at this point, temperatures are not cooperating on the side of growing degree day accumulation. Most of this June 10-14 week has average temperatures across the central U.S. forecast at from 4 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit below normal. And this cool pattern stays in effect for the entire remainder of the month of June.
There is still time, but growing degree day count will be a big detail the rest of this season. After all, a lot of the prime time has, literally, floated away.
Let’s take a closer look at this “growing degree day count,” as it may offer insight.
Growing Degree Days
Growing Degree Days are a measure of heat accumulation used to predict crop maturity. In the absence of extreme conditions such as unseasonal drought or disease, plants grow in a cumulative stepwise manner which is strongly influenced by the ambient temperature. In other words, GDD values provide a best case outlook as to plants’ pace to maturity.
If your GDD drops below certain thresholds, certain crops can no longer be grown.
GDD is calculated as the sum of daily temperature averages in excess of a given threshold, often 10C/50F (maize), but this can be different for certain crops.
Down 43%!?
Tim Agnew of Big Nugget Farm wrote me, noting that GDD in his neck of the woods has plummeted 43% from 2018. Several sites make this data available, including Syngenta’s GreenCast.
Checking a few more locations, I found that each had experienced a significant drop in GDD. Stunned, I went about collecting the data for every US ZIP code.
95% of US ZIP codes experienced a colder growing season in 2019 than 2018.
On average, a US ZIP code received 87.2% of the heat accumulation as in 2019 — a 12.8% drop!
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This data actually helps to quantify our shifting growing zones:
Corn
Corn requires ~ 2000 GDD to reach maturity.
There are 5,277 US ZIP codes that exceeded 2000 GDD in 2018 and have fallen beneath in 2019. These areas can no longer grow corn (it may look great, but it won’t reach maturity before first frost).
Oats
Oats require 1500 GDD
There are 1,813 US ZIP codes that exceeded 1500 GDDs in 2018 but fell beneath this in 2019, no longer able to grow Oats.
As the Solar Minimum forces temperatures to decline further, more and more of the planet will lose the ability to farm as we have been. And, again, this statement is based only on cooler temperatures, and does not factor in increased cloud cover, precipitative extremes, hail storms, or still other effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays.
North Dakota 2018/2019 Accumulated GDD Difference: Note that RED STILL MEANS COLDER!
30-yr Anomaly
Clearly 2019 has been colder than 2018. To put these 2019 values in perspective, we can look to longer term averages of GDD:
2019 GDD Anomaly vs. 30-yr
This makes our “cold” year feel somewhat less extreme — we can relax a bit, things aren’t that bad! But why such an extreme drop off from 2018 to 2019?
The last such significantly colder season year-over-year was 2008 to 2009:
2019, like 2009, ran colder than usual.
So what do 2009 and 2019 have in common? Both years are marked by low solar activity, during a deep Solar Minimum:
This means that as we enter an extended minimum — a Grand Solar Minimum — we must expect shorter and cooler growing seasons to continue. These, particularly combined with increased cloud cover (see Svensmark’s Cloud Mystery), and temperature/precipitative extremes caused by meridional flows of a weak jetstream, merit our full attention.
Even NASA is calling for weakest solar cycle in decades — many models suggest we have entered an extended period of weak solar activity
Modern agriculture is highly bespoke, with little tolerance for conditions to deviate without catastrophic cascading failures. The systems upon which civilized society is wholly dependent to eat are now failing.
In this crisis, however, lies the opportunity to replace toxic petrochemical agriculture en masse with permaculture and other regenerative practices, and return to indigenous knowledge and values. We all know massive change must happen — and now we witness a catalyst. Be the change.
Christian of Ice Age Farmer joins Jay Weidner and Yvonne Paleremo’s REALiTY CHeCK to discuss natural cycles of the sun and climate, and the risks to our food supply.
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Jay Weidner and Yvonne Palermo are joined by Christian Westbrook as we discuss the idea that the world may in fact be cooling instead of warming. Christian AKA Ice Age Farmer talks about realistic attempts to deal with the coming cold and how we can mitigate its effects.
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Christian Westbrook is creator of the ICE AGE FARMER channel on Youtube, discussing the natural cycles of the sun and associated risks as we enter a Grand Solar Minimum. He encourages and educates people to take steps today and every day to grow their own food and move towards self-sufficiency.
Christian has a background in Artificial Intelligence, practices Reiki, and is a father to two boys. He and his wife relocated their family out of the city to start building a more resilient lifestyle — and found that it is also a much better, healthier one.
a period during which solar activity diminishes, resulting in drastic climatic and geophysical changes to our planet. These include increased galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), seismic activity, and volcanism; the latter often results in a global reduction in temperatures (see “the year without a summer” — and much more on the IAF wiki).
