Gun grabs? WW3? Just scripted noise to distract from the fact that Agriculture is ON HOLD across the Northern Hemisphere. This is forecast to significantly decrease yields, aggravating the ALREADY catastrophic year-over-year losses in global production announced this month by USDA.
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Trust in God, but row away from the rocks. Today IAF discusses the events of the week, which were really quite severe and alarming, but should serve only to increase our resolve to map a path to prosperity in the Grand Solar Minimum.
2. Icebreaker: Grand Solar Minimum Symptoms (7:30)
There are several lessons learned from studying very early global cooling events in Europe. See also the discussion of the Great Famine of 1315 in Episode 5.
Onset of these conditions can be very abrupt and very severe.
A decline in food production due to:
Dramatic increase in days with overcast skies.
Decline in the intensity of sunlight.
Decline by several degrees in global temperature
Regions of massive rainfall and flooding
Limited regions experienced droughts
Shortened growing season
A string of major and minor famines
Malnutrition lead to weakened immune system. Produced influenza epidemics.
Reoccurrence of plagues such as the Black Plague.
Lack of feed for livestock
Parasites (i.e. fusarium nivale), which thrived under snow cover, devastated crops.
Grain storage in cool damp conditions produced fungus (Ergot Blight). Contaminated grains when consumed caused an illness (St. Anthony’s Fire) producing convulsions, hallucinations, gangrenous rotting of extremities.
Flooding created swamplands that became mosquito breeding grounds and introduced tropical diseases such as malaria throughout Europe.
During hot summers, cold air aloft produced killer hailstorms (hailstones that could kill a cow).
Higher frequency of powerful storms produced major devastations.
Glacier advance swallowed up entire alpine villages.
Ruptured glacial ice dams produced deadly floods.
Drastic increase in seismic activity (earthquake, volcano)
Last time, shared a piece about how re-planted corn (after late frost) required additional time to mature
“Should be fine if Mother Nature gives us a few more weeks” negative! Early fall: http://www.agweb.com/article/frost-to-creep-into-corn-belt-as-early-as-sept-6-NAA-ashley-davenport/ https://www.iceagenow.info/rare-august-snow-inner-mongolia/ Late spring: https://www.iceagenow.info/100-cm-snow-fall-australia-next-week/
Harvey fallout
– dairy prices – gas prices – cattle (beef) – GAS prices — which are used to harvest everything, and transport all food to market FOOD PRICES ARE RISING http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/30/investing/gas-prices-harvey-refineries/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/05/since-harvey-gas-prices-at-the-pump-are-up-50-cents/
remnants of Harvey causing flash flooding across TX/LA border
http://www.agweb.com/article/flash-floods-swamp-texas-louisiana-border-towns-NAA-associated-press/
1% off US GDP
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/10/hurricane-harvey-probably-shaved-1-percent-from-third-quarter-growth-goldman-sachs-says.html
Houston area sank 2cm under weight of water
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/hurricane-harvey-deformed-the-earths-crust-around-houston/538866/
Volcanoes, keep an eye on Vanuatu, danger zones declared
Earthquakes, Turkey was hit by 28,002 in the first 8 months of 2017
WILDFIRES
1.5 million acres of US west https://www.agweb.com/mobile/article/wildfires-rage-in-the-west-burning-nearly-15-million-acres-naa-wyatt-bechtel/
4. Daily Steps (17:22)
It is a miracle I am alive, and I am ABSOLUTELY dedicated to this community and the process of sharing knowledge as this climate changes, to ensure we all thrive in the times ahead.
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).
