As if keeping up with the global warming/climate change debate isn't difficult enough! Respected US-based think tank the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has just released a bone-chilling, bombshell report that rips the lid off "human induced" climate change theories and gives a far more likely and frighteningly plausible scenario about the future of humanity on this planet, such as it is. Be warned, the report is not for the faint of heart or anyone who is hoping to continue living in denial about what is taking place on our Big Blue Marble...and far beyond. (You can be forgiven if the current rhetoric regarding what is taking place in the mainstream media is leading to personal confusion...as that is the intent and purpose.)
The blockbuster report, written and compiled in conjunction with in-the-know organizations including NASA and NOAA, gives an incredibly sobering view of the not-so-distant future. In the report, reminiscent of the over-the-top disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, the recent trend of colder, more unstable weather during winter months, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, is given as a worsening trend in the future, with cold weather starting earlier and lasting longer, as well as dipping farther south than in previous cycles. In addition to colder weather, heavier precipitation is also anticipated, in the form of sleet, freezing rain and snow...lots and lots of snow. This cold weather cycle will also greatly impact the North American growing season, in particular the area known as "America's Bread Basket", which produces a large percentage of the food supply, not only for the United States and Canada, but for many countries around the globe. The growing seasons will be shorter by as much as two months in more extreme cases, depending on specific variables. Any shortening of the growing season will place a tremendous burden on the food chain, already taxed by a growing global population, and can possibly place millions of people at risk of enduring food shortages.
What precisely is driving the colder weather patterns, and isn't our love for putting the pedal to the metal creating enough greenhouse gases to keep us all in shorts and flip-flops year round? The answer is far more complicated that a fifteen second sound bite on the evening news could possibly detail. One of the most important factors in the climate game is also one of the most over-looked: The Sun. Yes, that massive ball of hydrogen dangling up high, which is the reason why we are all here to begin with, can affect the climate...because it actually creates the climate, dammit!
Citing a major reduction in sunspot activity over the past several years, which directly affects the solar heat output from the sun, the report states the last two recorded incidents of shrinking sunspot activity preceded two "Mini Ice Age" events. "The Little Ice Age" (also known as the Maunder Minimum), which was widely recorded across North America, Europe and Asia, took place between the years of 1615-1745, and was witness to brutally cold winters, with colder springs and falls, which brought about famine and pestilence from crop loss. Later, the "Dalton Minimum" (named after English meteorologist John Dalton), lasted from 1790 to 1830. Both cold snaps are believed to have been caused by an extended lull in solar activity. The decrease in sunspot activity is part of a natural cycle the sun goes through in its regenerating process. Unfortunately for residents of the Earth, this also brings about extreme cold weather.
Another reason to stock up on gloves and mittens: The increasing volcanic activity being monitored worldwide! The list of volcanoes blowing their tops around the globe grows (literally) by the day! From Villarica and Cabulco in Chile, to Colima in Mexico, Ontanke in Japan, Bárðarbunga & Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland and Merapi, Sangeang Api, and Sinabung in Indonesia, the list of erupting volcanoes worldwide has broken all records each year for the past several years, and it looks as if this year will topple last year's record. All of that ash has to go somewhere, and it goes directly into the atmosphere. When one large volcano erupts violently, the ash and debris begins to blot out the sun, cooling the surface of the earth and lowering global temperatures. Eruptions of "super-volcanoes" in the past, such as the Mt. Tambora in Indonesia eruption in 1815, have been known to cool the planet drastically, creating colder weather patterns that can last years...or decades. Only a few weeks ago, the European Science Foundation issued their own warning, urging the global population to prepare for the eruption of a super-volcanic system such as the Yellowstone Caldera in the Western United States. An eruption of such a system would have a catastrophic effect on the entire planet, placing billions of lives in great peril.
Not mentioned in this report: detonating bolide meteors (such as the Chelyabinsk, Russia, meteor event in 2013), which are also capable of creating dust and particle clouds that can influence the weather.
Everything in life is cyclical. The weather patterns of the planet have changed dramatically for billions of years, swinging from one extreme to the other, before leveling out once again. The past several hundred years, the Earth has been fortunate to see an extended period of less extreme, more hospitable temperatures. Everything is relative however, and that can change at a moment's notice, and human beings are completely and utterly powerless to stop the process. Human beings do not control the universe, it controls us.
To view the entire SSRC report as a pdf, click here:
http://bit.ly/1GKFBBi
The blockbuster report, written and compiled in conjunction with in-the-know organizations including NASA and NOAA, gives an incredibly sobering view of the not-so-distant future. In the report, reminiscent of the over-the-top disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, the recent trend of colder, more unstable weather during winter months, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, is given as a worsening trend in the future, with cold weather starting earlier and lasting longer, as well as dipping farther south than in previous cycles. In addition to colder weather, heavier precipitation is also anticipated, in the form of sleet, freezing rain and snow...lots and lots of snow. This cold weather cycle will also greatly impact the North American growing season, in particular the area known as "America's Bread Basket", which produces a large percentage of the food supply, not only for the United States and Canada, but for many countries around the globe. The growing seasons will be shorter by as much as two months in more extreme cases, depending on specific variables. Any shortening of the growing season will place a tremendous burden on the food chain, already taxed by a growing global population, and can possibly place millions of people at risk of enduring food shortages.
What precisely is driving the colder weather patterns, and isn't our love for putting the pedal to the metal creating enough greenhouse gases to keep us all in shorts and flip-flops year round? The answer is far more complicated that a fifteen second sound bite on the evening news could possibly detail. One of the most important factors in the climate game is also one of the most over-looked: The Sun. Yes, that massive ball of hydrogen dangling up high, which is the reason why we are all here to begin with, can affect the climate...because it actually creates the climate, dammit!
Citing a major reduction in sunspot activity over the past several years, which directly affects the solar heat output from the sun, the report states the last two recorded incidents of shrinking sunspot activity preceded two "Mini Ice Age" events. "The Little Ice Age" (also known as the Maunder Minimum), which was widely recorded across North America, Europe and Asia, took place between the years of 1615-1745, and was witness to brutally cold winters, with colder springs and falls, which brought about famine and pestilence from crop loss. Later, the "Dalton Minimum" (named after English meteorologist John Dalton), lasted from 1790 to 1830. Both cold snaps are believed to have been caused by an extended lull in solar activity. The decrease in sunspot activity is part of a natural cycle the sun goes through in its regenerating process. Unfortunately for residents of the Earth, this also brings about extreme cold weather.
Another reason to stock up on gloves and mittens: The increasing volcanic activity being monitored worldwide! The list of volcanoes blowing their tops around the globe grows (literally) by the day! From Villarica and Cabulco in Chile, to Colima in Mexico, Ontanke in Japan, Bárðarbunga & Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland and Merapi, Sangeang Api, and Sinabung in Indonesia, the list of erupting volcanoes worldwide has broken all records each year for the past several years, and it looks as if this year will topple last year's record. All of that ash has to go somewhere, and it goes directly into the atmosphere. When one large volcano erupts violently, the ash and debris begins to blot out the sun, cooling the surface of the earth and lowering global temperatures. Eruptions of "super-volcanoes" in the past, such as the Mt. Tambora in Indonesia eruption in 1815, have been known to cool the planet drastically, creating colder weather patterns that can last years...or decades. Only a few weeks ago, the European Science Foundation issued their own warning, urging the global population to prepare for the eruption of a super-volcanic system such as the Yellowstone Caldera in the Western United States. An eruption of such a system would have a catastrophic effect on the entire planet, placing billions of lives in great peril.
Not mentioned in this report: detonating bolide meteors (such as the Chelyabinsk, Russia, meteor event in 2013), which are also capable of creating dust and particle clouds that can influence the weather.
Everything in life is cyclical. The weather patterns of the planet have changed dramatically for billions of years, swinging from one extreme to the other, before leveling out once again. The past several hundred years, the Earth has been fortunate to see an extended period of less extreme, more hospitable temperatures. Everything is relative however, and that can change at a moment's notice, and human beings are completely and utterly powerless to stop the process. Human beings do not control the universe, it controls us.
To view the entire SSRC report as a pdf, click here:
http://bit.ly/1GKFBBi