With an Ice Age comes abrupt change, and with change comes death—sometimes death on a massive scale.
More of the world's top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology [Down loadable list] are predicting that the two major cooling cycles are converging—theshort term and long term Ice Ages—and Earth has just entered thebeginnings of the dangerous cooling.
Both cooling periods are due and both seem to have started just as the sun's about to reach its solar maximum. When the sun goes quiet after2012, it's expected to stay quiet for at least the next 30 to 50 years.During that time, the sun will generate significantly less heat and theplanets—including Earth—will cool rapidly.
Mass migrations and famines:Now other scientists—including John L. Casey, the Director of the Space and Science Research Center—are warning that people in the comingdecades are facing food and fuel shortages.
Some northerncountries will be abandoned as the ice marches down from the Arctic;energy production will be interrupted; and shortened growing periods inthe Northern Hemisphere will precipitate mass migrations, famines, foodriots, regional conflicts and a loss of human life that could bemeasured on an apocalyptic scale.
Imminent crop damage was forecast back in 2007 and predicted to start by 2010.
Right on schedule the damage has been occurring as cold has gripped the Northern Hemisphere as far south as Cuba and southern Italy.
Duringthe next 30 months the world's temperatures are predicted to drop evenmore dramatically and at a faster clip than the worldwide plungerecorded during 2007 to 2008.
Sun entering an extended "hibernation period"
According to Casey, “The Earth typically makes adjustments in major temperature spikes within two to three years. In this case as we cooldown from El Nino, we are dealing with the combined effects of thisplanetary thermodynamic normalization and the influence of the morepowerful underlying global temperature downturn brought on by the solarhibernation. Both forces will present the first opportunity since theperiod of Sun-caused global warmingperiod ended to witness obvious harmful agricultural impacts of the newcold climate. Analysis shows that food and crop derived fuel will forthe first time, become threatened in the next two and a half years.Though the SSRC does not get involved with short term weatherprediction, it would not be unusual to see these ill-effects this year much less within the next 30 months.”
Other scientists concur and some see the speed at which the temperatures will drop as frightening.
Casy's organization has been at the forefront of the climate change controversy, correctly predicting in advance three important changes inthe climate that many others missed: the end of global warming cycle(1999), a long term drop in the Earth’s temperatures (starting in 2006to 2007) the unsettling prospect of an historic contraction of the Sun’senergy resulting in a never-before-seen solar hibernation. Thehibernation is now recognized by NASA's Long Range Solar Forecast through 2022 and as well as the stunning slowdown of sun's activity.
Atthe urging of colleagues from around the globe that concur with him,Casey has taken an unprecedented step. "In view of the importance ofthis new forecast I have notified the Secretary of Agriculture to takeimmediate actions to prepare the nation’s agricultural industry for thecoming crop damage.”
Mini or major Ice Age - either are a disaster:
While Casey sees a so-called mini-Ice Age occurring and lasting about 40 to 50 years,others like Robert Felix believes the data is there that supports a realpossibility of a major Ice Age that could last several thousands ofyears. Felix believes the Earth's already entered the first stages ofthe mini-Ice Age and a bigger one might be close on its heels.
Felixwarns: " The next Ice Age could begin any day. Next week, next month,next year...it's not a question of if, only when. One day you'll wakeup—or you won't wake up, rather—buried beneath nine stories of snow.It's all part of a dependable, predictable cycle, a natural cycle thatreturns like clockwork every 11,500 years."
The last Ice Age happened to end almost exactly 11,500 years ago.
Caseyexplains that "The present [solar] hibernation is proceeding in almostlock step as the last one which occurred from 1793 to 1830. If itcontinues on present course, while the cold weather impacts on food andfuel announced today are certainly important, they do not compare withwhat is to follow later. At the bottom of the cold cycle of thishibernation in the late 2020’s and 2030’s there will likely be yearswith devastating to total crop losses in the Canadian and northern USgrain regions.”
A scientific paper that presents his model, "The Theory of Relational Cycles of Solar Activity" (also called the "RC Theory"), is gaining followers in the scientific community.
Perhaps that's because of the fact that of his three predictions based on the RC Theory climate model, all three are occurring.
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