Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

[meandk0610]

TxGal, thanks for the Yanasa Ama video. He's kind of hard to listen to...seems like I hear "ya know" more than any real words, but this one really was quite interesting

That or his damn power tools.

 

[TxGal]

When I see all the cold and snow still happening in so many places, I worry less about how late I'm getting my garden planted! Heck, I still might have to cover it against a sudden frost.

Wonder if this is the year we could all get a nice Fourth of July blizzard!

TxGal, thanks for posting so many great articles!

You're welcome! Sometimes I get lucky on when new ones are posted :-)

 

[TxGal]

The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGT-DaC63U


Grimsvötn Volcano Uptick - Arizona Wildfire Explodes - June Snow Baffles - Record Greenland Ice Gain
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Water Levels In The Great Lakes Approach A Record High https://n.pr/3fBLKsA
Arizona wildfire now the largest in US https://fxn.ws/2UScA7W
Saharan Dust from Africa will stretch toward the US https://cnn.it/30TUPZu
Snow Will Be Gone By 2020 Headline https://bit.ly/2YItPJO
Winter Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent https://bit.ly/3dca56D
JUNE STORM IN WYOMING DROPS 4 INCHES OF SNOW NEAR PINEDALE https://bit.ly/37DhLxH
Areas of snow this morning as a mid-June winter storm approaches https://bit.ly/2CcvaAY
Bogus Basin, Redfish Lake get two inches of snow overnight https://bit.ly/2YRCRV8
June snow closes Beartooth Pass https://bit.ly/2YcNZwu
Snow in Mid-June? Yellowstone Expecting Snow on Wednesday https://bit.ly/3dg6wwa
SNOWFALL ANALYSIS FROM THE LAST 24 HOURS http://bit.ly/37ZQHZh
Antarctic sea ice loss explained in new study https://bit.ly/2N58hSp
Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia https://bit.ly/30Z8WwV
Greenland Surface Mass Budget https://bit.ly/30UtXZh
Arctic Sea Ice Thickness https://bit.ly/2BlgSNT
While not record-breaking, these highs in the 60s are pretty rare for mid-June https://bit.ly/37DvdBD
Australia to be smashed with snow, hail, fierce winds and driving rain http://dailym.ai/2N91p6k
Cyclone's SA visit deepest since 1907 https://bit.ly/2YJLT6p
SOHO Movie Maker https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/The...
Grimsvötn volcano (Iceland): signs of volcano getting ready for eruption https://bit.ly/3de21lV
Worldwide Volcano News https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volc...
World’s largest reptile egg discovered on Antarctica https://fxn.ws/3fzO2Z1
Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers https://bit.ly/30UusCD
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown https://bit.ly/3fybUMM
A cosmic baby is discovered, and it's brilliant https://bit.ly/2N9pgmE
There may be more than 36 intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way, scientists say https://cbsn.ws/2Cg3Y4l
6 billion 'Earth-like' planets in the Milky Way galaxy, study suggests https://www.foxnews.com/science/6-bil...

 

[TxGal]

Deutsche Bank Risk Assessment: "one-in-three chance that a Major Disaster is coming in the next decade [including Solar Flare and Catastrophic Volcanic Eruption]" - Electroverse

A new report from Deutsche Bank has just been released that looks at the next massive tail risk for the markets. Times are changing. You should, too.

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DEUTSCHE BANK RISK ASSESSMENT: “ONE-IN-THREE CHANCE THAT A MAJOR DISASTER IS COMING IN THE NEXT DECADE [INCLUDING SOLAR FLARE AND CATASTROPHIC VOLCANIC ERUPTION]”

JUNE 18, 2020 CAP ALLON

Since the bottom of the COVID-crash back in mid-March, stock markets have been busy blowing a stupendous and illogical bubble — one that legendary investor Jeremy Grantham has called “the Real McCoy” and “crazy stuff”.

“My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is, in fact, becoming the fourth, real McCoy, bubble of my investment career,” said Grantham. “The great bubbles can go on a long time and inflict a lot of pain but at least I think we know now that we’re in one. And the chutzpah involved in having a bubble at a time of massive economic and financial uncertainty is substantial.”

The catalyst for bursting this bubble may not be investor-related, however.

A new report from Deutsche Bank has just been released that looks at the next massive tail risk for the markets. Analysts, led by Henry Allen, say there is at least a one-in-three chance that at least one of four major tail risks will occur within the next decade:

1) A [real] influenza pandemic killing more than two million people.

2) A globally catastrophic volcanic eruption.

3) A major solar flare.

Or 4) a global war.

(Note, earthquakes were omitted from the numbers on the grounds that they are more local events)

If the time frame is two decades, then there is a 56% chance of one of these disasters occurring, the analysts say in an article from marketwatch.com.

The likelihood of a solar flare is one rarely discussed in the mainstream media, but the Deutsche Bank analysis, which is based on various studies and risk assessments, actually finds it to be far more likely than a global war.

“There could be major power outages as electrical power grids are disrupted, which in turn would have knock-on effects throughout the economy as critical infrastructure is unable to be run properly,” reads the report.

“Lives could be lost if it impacted hospitals and medical care. Communications would be disrupted, many payment systems would be dysfunctional, and GPS satellites would face extensive interference, to the detriment of all the individuals and industries that rely on accurate location services, not least aircraft.”

The threat of globally catastrophic volcanic eruption is also very real.

Volcanic eruptions are one of the key forcings driving Earth into its next bout of global cooling the the (Grand Solar Minimum), and their recent worldwide uptick has been linked to historically low solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.

For more on some of the science, see this link.

Times are changing.

You should, too.

Prepare according — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Solar Minimum ain't over yet - Electroverse

Solar Cycle 25 may have shown signs of life of late, but all is once again quite on the earth-facing solar disc -- Solar Minimum vs GSM

electroverse.net

SOLAR MINIMUM AIN’T OVER YET

JUNE 18, 2020 CAP ALLON

Solar Cycle 25 may have shown signs of life of late, but all is once again quite on the earth-facing solar disc.

During the past month, Solar Cycle 25 has produced the strongest solar flare in three years (M1-class), as well as a sunspot that lasted for two whole weeks (AR2765) that then erupted on June 9th:

Dark magnetic filament bisecting sunspot AR2765 erupting on June 9th at 1800 UT

However, the Sun is once again blank and quiet, points out Dr Tony Phillips at spaceweather.com. This is a sign that, while Solar Minimum may be loosening its grip, it ain’t over yet.

SOLAR MINIMUMS VS GSMS

The difference between Solar Minimums and GRAND Solar Minimums is causing some confusion out there.
The former refers to the weakest part of a standard 11-or-so year solar cycle, or the ‘trough’.

Using the Radio Flux chart below, we can see the minimum of Solar Cycle 24 began in 2018 and is still running today. Also visible is the minimum from the previous Solar Cycle 23 which began in 2008 and ended in 2010:



Just like the sunspot count, the solar radio flux at 10.7 cm (2800 MHz) is an excellent indicator of solar activity. Here it shows the peak and trough of solar activity through one 11 year cycle (cycle 24) — the cycle began in 2010, the peak in 2014, and the trough in 2018. And if anyone knows why NOAA are discontinuing this useful tool from July 1st, please let me know — my spidey senses are tingling.

Whereas the latter, a GRAND Solar Minimum, refers to a run of MULTIPLE 11-or-so year solar cycles where the Sun’s output is consistently weak, where our star is often devoid of sunspots for decades at a time:


Yearly Sunspot Numbers.

Grand Solar Minimums can last for 100+ years in some cases, as was true with the Spörer Minimum (1450-1560):


Historic Grand Solar Minimums.

The most recent and probably most infamous GSM was the Maunder Minimum which ran from 1645-1715. Our Modern “Eddy” Grand Solar Minimum that we’re entering now will most-likely run for a similar duration — around 70 years (though theories are numerous, and it’s really anyone’s guess).

During the Maunder, “temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged,” say NASA. “Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly—an event that is rare today.”

Along with GRAND Solar Minimums, there are also multidecadal periods of low solar activity that don’t quite cut it as their grander counterparts.

The most recent examples of these include the Centennial (or Glassberg/Gleissberg) Minimum (1880-1914), and the Dalton Minimum (1796-1820).



Like the deeper Maunder and Spörer Minimums preceding it, the Dalton brought on a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production.

‘The Year Without a Summer’ also occurred during the Dalton Minimum, in 1816. It was caused by a combination of already low temperatures plus the aftereffects of the second largest volcanic eruption of the past 2000 years — Mount Tambora’s VEI 7 on April 10, 1815.

These periods of solar-driven cooling are cyclic.

History repeats.

Unfortunately for us, the Modern Grand Solar MAXIMUM has run its course, and the COLD TIMES are returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.

Even NASA agrees, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.



Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Car destroyed by severe hailstorm in Saint Petersburg, Russia: "Have we found a gate to hell here?" -- Sott.net

The Russian city of Saint Petersburg was battered by a deadly hailstorm last Tuesday (June 9). The huge blocks of ice could be seen wrecking parked cars, with one resident writing on social media:"Have we found a gate to hell here?"

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Car destroyed by severe hailstorm in Saint Petersburg, Russia: "Have we found a gate to hell here?"

Yahoo! News
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:00 UTC



The Russian city of Saint Petersburg was battered by a deadly hailstorm last Tuesday (June 9). The huge blocks of ice could be seen wrecking parked cars, with one resident writing on social media:"Have we found a gate to hell here?"

View: https://youtu.be/OM3OcdTBxeU
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[TxGal]

Winter returns to the Rockies as storm dumps multiple inches of snow (PHOTOS) -- Sott.net

The snowstorm sweeping down the Rocky Mountains delivered yesterday, dumping multiple inches of fresh snow on Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, before moving south into Utah. According to Wasatch Snow Forecast, Snowbasin resort got the biggest totals....

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Winter returns to the Rockies as storm dumps multiple inches of snow (PHOTOS)

Snow Brains
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:38 UTC


Summer in Utah.

The snowstorm sweeping down the Rocky Mountains delivered yesterday, dumping multiple inches of fresh snow on Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, before moving south into Utah. According to Wasatch Snow Forecast, Snowbasin resort got the biggest totals.

View: https://youtu.be/v9rIX-VS7N8



Dumping on Lost Trail Pass this morning.

The storm is expected to move into Colorado Wednesday into Thursday.

Mountains passes and ski resorts shared pictures this morning of snow covering the ground, in what is likely the last snowstorm before summer sets in proper.






Big Sky, MT.


Lost Trail Pass, ID/MT.

 

[TxGal]

I haven't been posting many podcasts from Suspicious Observers lately; here's a few recent ones that seem relevant to the GSM:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4KpMDapp-E


Volcano, Cosmic Jets, The Power of the Sun | S0 News Jun.18.2020
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Galactic Sheet, Earth Electric, Volcano, Hail, Earthquake | S0 News Jun.15.2020
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Daily Sun, Earth and Science News

 

[TheSearcher]

Winter returns to the Rockies as storm dumps multiple inches of snow (PHOTOS) -- Sott.net

The snowstorm sweeping down the Rocky Mountains delivered yesterday, dumping multiple inches of fresh snow on Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, before moving south into Utah. According to Wasatch Snow Forecast, Snowbasin resort got the biggest totals....

www.sott.net

Winter returns to the Rockies as storm dumps multiple inches of snow (PHOTOS)

Snow Brains
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:38 UTC

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Summer in Utah.

The snowstorm sweeping down the Rocky Mountains delivered yesterday, dumping multiple inches of fresh snow on Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, before moving south into Utah. According to Wasatch Snow Forecast, Snowbasin resort got the biggest totals.

View: https://youtu.be/v9rIX-VS7N8


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Dumping on Lost Trail Pass this morning.

The storm is expected to move into Colorado Wednesday into Thursday.

Mountains passes and ski resorts shared pictures this morning of snow covering the ground, in what is likely the last snowstorm before summer sets in proper.

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Big Sky, MT.

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Lost Trail Pass, ID/MT.

On June 18th this is happening. Freeeeking wow.

 

[TxGal]

On June 18th this is happening. Freeeeking wow.

Yep, that's pretty weird....I seem to be saying that a lot this year :-)

 

[TxGal]

Martinhouse (and everyone reading), on Tuesday I mentioned they had lots of vegetable seeds at Lowes. Today I went back and it was almost all gone. I got what I could, and when I went to HEB I bought more seed there. They had a decent supply, but it also was obvious a lot of people have been buying seed.

I would just suggest those who are planning ahead for their gardens might want to consider buying what you can, when you see it.

 

[TxGal]

Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPU6bTmkCwc


Consolidation of Corporate Delivery and Food Availability (997)
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Food scare about ground beef slashed demand across the USA as ground beef shortages were being reported in the news with skyrocketing prices. Convenient timing, as well Walmart and Shopify are partnering in anticipation of 2.0 lockdown and more online orders. As global business contracts to great depression levels goods will be delivered by the new category of worlds largest ship, stopping in many locations instead of point to point. Its a new method of less sea traffic with shared delivery, meaning less global shipping consolidated into a few corporate hands. These sets of events signal a long term shift in our lives and economy.

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1273729461934936064

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1273729461934936064

 

[TxGal]

Deep summer snowfall blankets high elevations across Idaho, Montana - 19 inches deep at several locations -- Sott.net

Is it the middle of June or the middle of January? That's the question some residents in parts of Idaho and Montana may have been asking this week as their communities were transformed into a winter wonderland. With the summer solstice just days...

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Deep summer snowfall blankets high elevations across Idaho, Montana - 19 inches deep at several locations


Kevin Byrne
AccuWeather
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC


© Blaine County, Idaho, Sheriff's Office

Is it the middle of June or the middle of January? That's the question some residents in parts of Idaho and Montana may have been asking this week as their communities were transformed into a winter wonderland.

With the summer solstice just days away, Old Man Winter ruffled some feathers across the northern Rockies by delivering a large helping of snow, with totals surpassing a foot across the highest elevations from Tuesday into Wednesday.

The Blaine County Sheriff's Office in Idaho said on Facebook that it was issuing a "felony warrant for Mother Nature for Illegal Dumping." A storm total of about 10 inches of snow was measured north of Galena Summit while south of the summit, a total of 6 inches was measured. The sheriff's office also responded to several stuck vehicles in the area.


© Blaine County, Idaho, Sheriff's Office

"If you see [Mother Nature], please show her a calendar. She thinks it's Junuary..." the sheriff's department wrote.

Winter storm warnings were issued for elevations above 5,500 feet in southwestern Montana, and forecasters warned that travel may be difficult on mountain roads. The warnings also extended into parts of north central Idaho. Department of transportation webcams from Idaho and Montana showed snow-covered roads throughout the day on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Missoula, Montana, noted that it appeared snow amounts at several of their SNOTEL stations reported up to 19 inches of snow, which is more in one day than had been recorded in the last 30-40 years for those specific locations. The NWS called it a "historic heavy precipitation event" for Lemhi County, Idaho.


© Blaine County, Idaho, Sheriff's Office

© Blaine County, Idaho, Sheriff's Office
SNOTEL stations are automated data collection sites and are designed to operate unattended and without maintenance, in some cases for over a year or more. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a typical SNOTEL site uses "measuring devices and sensors, an equipment shelter for the radio telemetry equipment, and an antenna that also supports the solar panels used to keep batteries charged." These devices can track and provide data on weather conditions such as precipitation, snowpack and temperature.

The NWS cautioned that the records at the SNOTEL sites were unofficial. Historically, snowfall records have only been tracked by human-run stations because measurements need to be taken manually, AccuWeather Senior Weather Editor Jesse Ferrell explained.

The late-spring snowfall was the product of a chilly area of low pressure that traversed the Northwest, according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bill Deger.

"While not terribly unusual, since snow can still fall during the early and late summer in the northern Rockies, there were some impressive snowfall totals, including a report of 17 inches near Darkhorse Lake just west of the Continental Divide in Montana," Deger said, adding that snow levels hovered around 5,500 feet.

"The heaviest totals look like they were above 7,000 feet," he said.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1273252626163920901

View: https://twitter.com/NWSBoise/status/1273252626163920901


Snow was also reported in Wyoming. A webcam from Yellowstone National Park showed light snow falling amid the park's steamy geysers. One Twitter user in Kemmerer, Wyoming, captured video of snowflakes falling early Wednesday and told AccuWeather that his town received about 2 inches from the storm.
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[TxGal]

Southeastern Turkey's Hakkari still gripped with remaining winter snow in June - 7 meters deep in places -- Sott.net

Hakkari, known for its rough weather, is gripped with heavy snow even though summer has set in. Snowfall bears down particularly in rural areas of this southeastern Turkish province. In the Yüksekova district, crews have been working to clear...

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Southeastern Turkey's Hakkari still gripped with remaining winter snow in June - 7 meters deep in places

Daily Sabah
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:28 UTC



© DHA
A snowplow in Yüksekova, Turkey, 18 June, 2020.

Hakkari, known for its rough weather, is gripped with heavy snow even though summer has set in. Snowfall bears down particularly in rural areas of this southeastern Turkish province.

In the Yüksekova district, crews have been working to clear snow-covered roads. Snowplows pierce through 3 meters (9.8 feet) of snow in areas with high altitudes. For the past 20 days, crews have worked to reopen roads leading to military bases in the Göllerbaşı region, some 40 kilometers (24.9 miles) from central Yüksekova.

A 16-kilometer road has been largely cleared so far while the snow depth reached 7 meters in some areas. Officials say they expect the road to be cleared fully in about two weeks.

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, I've been buying up end-of-season seeds from the racks at Dollar General, and occasionally other places, for the last few years. There are still little bags of them hanging all over my place! (:

Today the entire existing "roof" got removed from my attached greenhouse. Nephew took kitty and showed him that the roof was missing. I will have to hope I don't have a forgetful kitty who could end up with a broken leg or impaled on something. Maybe I should put a lantern out there overnight until the new roof is on. I don't want anything to happen to my kitty. Especially now that squirrels and roof rats and worse can get right in there until it's finished. The finish will take longer as lots of the overheads are warped so he is just going to replace all of them. It will be nice when finished, but I'm sure glad I didn't plant my tomatoes and cucumbers in there!!!!!

The new lumber will be delivered here so we are getting my patio blocks at the same time. I'm ordering LOTS, so I will never run out again. By the time I'm done with them, the whole yard around my house could be mowed with a small weed-eater!

 

[Martinhouse]

There is a new Ice Age Farmer video posted.
Title is "On Grand Solar Minimum and Food Shortages". It is an interview with a fellow named Curtis Stone, Urban Farmer. Not sure but I think IAF is the guest on this one.

I have not watched it yet. It runs 56:46.

 

[TheSearcher]

The more of this stuff I see literally descending southward, the more I do believe that a lot of the Covid hysteria and political unrest is being inflated to keep people from watching it. I wouldn't say that I'm terrified, but neither am I sanguine about the weather changes.

 

[Martinhouse]

I'm not very far from admitting that I'm terrified, not just from the GSM, but the combination of all the things going on right now. For now I'm holding at "highly worried bordering on scared". I can keep it there by concentrating on the work being done for me right now, establishing more garden space that I can protect from weather extremes.

And I'm trying to console myself about how much it's all costing me by realizing that it's possible that my stash might not be worth much soon, if our money system gets changed in one or more ways. Better to use it now on things I need, while they are still available. There are already things that some places are out of and we're having to shop around to find them.

 

[Martinhouse]

I'm listening to the new IAF video right now. He's basically giving a beginner's lesson on what's happening and going to happen with a GSM and all the basics about starting to grow one's own food.

I'm still going to listen to it all, but I've not heard anything new yet and I'm about 2/3 of the way through. The guy who is the host of this discussion is easy to listen to.

 

[TheSearcher]

I'm listening to the new IAF video right now. He's basically giving a beginner's lesson on what's happening and going to happen with a GSM and all the basics about starting to grow one's own food.

I'm still going to listen to it all, but I've not heard anything new yet and I'm about 2/3 of the way through. The guy who is the host of this discussion is easy to listen to.

Same here. Right now I'm about a third through.

 

[TxGal]

Thanks, y'all!

Ice Age Farmer has two new podcasts out. The 2nd one is REALLY good...Hell's Bells:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSBMcHUXik


IAF on Urban Farmer Curtis Stone: On Grand Solar Minimum & Food Shortages
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Christian Westbrook of Ice Age Farmer joins Urban Farmer Curtis Stone to introduce the Grand Solar Minimum and discuss the myriad challenges to our food security. This is a fantastic conversation to share with folks who are just learning of the natural cycles of our Sun, the difficult growing seasons ahead, or even the forces at work to capitalize on this to seize total control.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q2oITixTNk


Trump's New Icebreaker Fleet & Grand Solar Minimum 2020
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Ireland's Dryest Spring Ever. Chinese floods. Massive hailstorms, cold temperatures, and precipitative extremes affecting agriculture globally. Trump orders new Icebreaker fleet to match China & Russia's nuclear icebreakers. Nations and Multinationals are preparing -- are you? 2020 may be remembered as the year the Grand Solar Minimum really kicked into gear. Christian breaks it down.

 

[TxGal]

Geography of the Ice Age - Fantastic video!

This guy has really done his homework! I especially like that he shows how much larger the landmasses became when sea levels were 130 meters (426 feet) lower than today. (This part of the video

www.iceagenow.info

Geography of the Ice Age – Fantastic video!
June 19, 2020 by Robert

This guy has really done his homework! I especially like that he shows how much larger the landmasses became when sea levels were 130 meters (426 feet) lower than today. (This part of the video begins at about 7½ minutes in.) This a cogent reminder that many ancient cities are almost certainly buried beneath layers of mud and sediments that have accumulated over the eons.

View: https://youtu.be/Pg0Z3LappEM


Some links:
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/43/1…
https://geologycafe.com/class/chapter…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ag…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ag…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikivers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Si…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi…
http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafr…
https://www.uib.no/fg/kvart%C3%A6r/12…
http://metrocosm.com/timelapse-evolut…
http://metrocosm.com/earth-19000bc-30…
https://i.redd.it/l1eye5puu3v11.jpg

 

[TxGal]

Practically ALL of the African Continent to Suffer Anomalous Cold - Electroverse

Waves of anomalous cold are coloring the majority of the 11.73 million mi² African continent "blue" and "purple" this week.

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PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO SUFFER ANOMALOUS COLD
JUNE 19, 2020 CAP ALLON

Waves of anomalous cold are coloring the majority of the 11.73 million mi² African continent “blue” and “purple” this week, as the Grand Solar Minimum continues its intensification.

Latest GFS runs (below) reveal temperature departures some 4C – 10C below the seasonal norm will stretch the length and breadth of Africa today, June 19 — from Morocco in the north down to South Africa in, well, the south:

Much of Madagascar is also included:

The Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) has urged its people to keep themselves warm during the coming cold.
ZMD meteorologist Peggy Thole said the lowest temperature recorded yesterday was the 4C in Kabwe — a reading well-below the average for the time of year, with today’s temp expected to sink even lower.

The Kenya Meteorological department has also warned its residents to brace for a brutal three-month cold season.
“Chronic diseases such as arthritis and pneumonic attacks may increase due to the cold weather so people need to dress in warm clothes and eat well,” warned Murang’a’s director of meteorology Paul Murage.

The cold temperatures will also pose a challenge to this year’s harvest.

“If farmers do not properly dry and store their produce then the entire harvest will be lost due to the low temperatures,” added Murage.

The COLD TIMES are returning in line with with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.

And unless you live in either the Arctic, Alaska or the Southern Greenland you won’t be spared from the sharp decline in temperatures brought on by the coming Grand Solar Minimum (GSM).

Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA

Above is NASA’s temperature reconstruction map from the Maunder Minimum (the previous GSM). It reveals that some regions of the planet actually warm during periods of ‘global’ cooling.

Today, we find that these same regions –the Arctic, Alaska, S. Greenland– are once again warming slightly, while the lower-latitudes are cooling. This serves as further evidence that the period we’re entering is indeed one of solar-driven cooling.
Note, there is also no such thing as ‘global’ cooling — or ‘global’ warming for that matter. Nothing is simple when it comes to the climate, it doesn’t shift in one homogeneous blob. Instead, it is a frustratingly complex system containing cycles upon cycles upon cycles upon cycles — and there is no scientist on the planet that understands it (despite what the IPCC would have you believe).

The full picture of Earth’s weather events are never revealed by the mainstream media, their agenda-driven reporting allows only for one side of the story — heat and drought.

That’s why you’ll never about the African Continent and its anomalous cold.




Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

TxGal, I've been buying up end-of-season seeds from the racks at Dollar General, and occasionally other places, for the last few years. There are still little bags of them hanging all over my place! (:

Today the entire existing "roof" got removed from my attached greenhouse. Nephew took kitty and showed him that the roof was missing. I will have to hope I don't have a forgetful kitty who could end up with a broken leg or impaled on something. Maybe I should put a lantern out there overnight until the new roof is on. I don't want anything to happen to my kitty. Especially now that squirrels and roof rats and worse can get right in there until it's finished. The finish will take longer as lots of the overheads are warped so he is just going to replace all of them. It will be nice when finished, but I'm sure glad I didn't plant my tomatoes and cucumbers in there!!!!!

The new lumber will be delivered here so we are getting my patio blocks at the same time. I'm ordering LOTS, so I will never run out again. By the time I'm done with them, the whole yard around my house could be mowed with a small weed-eater!

Excellent planning, all the way around!

That's exactly what we're doing - we have a small front and side yards, and the back is occupied by the chicken and duck runs and housing, and now the raised beds. We're putting in the second row of raised beds slowly, and with mulched spacing we'll be dramatically decreasing the amount of grass in between. Weed whacking the yard is our goal, too! We can pretty much do it now, but knocking back more of the back yard into garden space will help a lot.

 

[Martinhouse]

This may not be exactly the right place to post this, but in my case it's directly related to my GSM gardening efforsts so that's why I'm putting it here.

My nephew just called to tell me that the extra long treated lumber he wanted for rebuilding the top frame of my attached greenhouse is not available. He is going to have to splice shorter pieces and will be going to the lumber yard so he can choose the pieces himself. He gets his lumber at a place that allows him out in the yard where he can keep a distance away from anyone else. He does this because his son is VERY immune compromised.

The point I'm getting at here is if you are going to need building material, you soon if not already, may not be able to find what you want. So it might be a good idea to get it IMMEDIATELY!

The guy my nephew spoke to on the phone just now said the places that make treated lumber are short-handed or closed because of the Covid-19 thing and he said it may be a long wait if you order anything and it is even possible that it will never be available again.

Not sure but I seem to remember that the lumber yard was out of fencing, too.

So there you have it, folks. Get anything you need ASAP!

 

[TheSearcher]

This may not be exactly the right place to post this, but in my case it's directly related to my GSM gardening efforsts so that's why I'm putting it here.

My nephew just called to tell me that the extra long treated lumber he wanted for rebuilding the top frame of my attached greenhouse is not available. He is going to have to splice shorter pieces and will be going to the lumber yard so he can choose the pieces himself. He gets his lumber at a place that allows him out in the yard where he can keep a distance away from anyone else. He does this because his son is VERY immune compromised.

The point I'm getting at here is if you are going to need building material, you soon, or even already,may not be able to find what you want. So it might be a good idea to get it IMMEDIATELY!

The guy nephew spoke to on the phone just now said the places that make treated lumber are short-hended or closed because of the Covid-19 thing and he said it may be a long wait if you order anything and it is even possible that it will never be available again.

So there you have it, folks. Get anything you need ASAP!

I was getting some pressure-treated lumber myself yesterday, and yes, it's pretty scarce. I found what I needed, but it took a lot of searching.

 

[Martinhouse]

Searcher, thanks for posting that. It's good to have my information verified.

I wonder if we've gotten to the place where what we have on hand is all we're ever going to have for the foreseeable future?? I would be okay as I am now, but there are still a few things I'd like to get that would make life a little bit easier.

 

[TheSearcher]

I have taters.

Homegrown taters. They're small, but they're mine.

 

[TheSearcher]

Searcher, thanks for posting that. It's good to have my information verified.

I wonder if we've gotten to the place where what we have on hand is all we're ever going to have for the foreseeable future?? I would be okay as I am now, but there are still a few things I'd like to get that would make life a little bit easier.

You're welcome.

 

[TxGal]

People had been posting on the forum somewhere about just that problem with lumber. It must be bad and widespread.

Here's the link:

CHAT - Treated Lumber Shortage???

Went to 2 different Lowes and a Home Depot (West Virginia) to get 2 x 8 x 8 pressure treated boards and completely sold out. Is this just my area? Why the shortage?

www.timebomb2000.com

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1274055448996413440

View: https://twitter.com/GrizzlyGovFan/status/1274055448996413440

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1273848246931091457

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1273848246931091457

 

[TxGal]

Beartooth Pass in Wyoming closed again due to winter weather conditions as foot of snow hits area

The official start of summer might only be three days away, but snow and winter weather conditions have just forced the closure of Beartooth Pass at the Montana / Wyoming border. Travelers in Wyoming are being advised to turn around and return to...

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Beartooth Pass in Wyoming closed again due to winter weather conditions as foot of snow hits area
Snow Brains
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:33 UTC

The official start of summer might only be three days away, but snow and winter weather conditions have just forced the closure of Beartooth Pass at the Montana / Wyoming border.


Travelers in Wyoming are being advised to turn around and return to Red Lodge due to adverse weather conditions.

(There's a facebook video that won't copy over)​

© MDOT

Almost a foot of snow fell on the area, dropped by the snowstorm that has dumped on the higher elevations of the Rockies this week. Beartooth Basin ski area, the country's only summer-only ski area, is still open.

The high elevation Beartooth Highway, US 212, connecting Yellowstone National Park with Red Lodge, Montana, opened for the season on May 29th.

The final section in Wyoming was cleared for summer travel on May 29, connecting with the opened Montana portion of the road. The opening came as Beartooth Basin ski area, the nation's only summer ski area, opened on 1st June. Winter weather again forced the highway to close on June 8th.


Montana, yesterday, 17th June 2020.

The 68-mile road, which peaks at 10,947-feet, typically closes from early Fall through April or May as a result of deep snow. After opening for Memorial Day last year, the road had to close for 5-days at the end of June due to snow. It then closed on September 11th for the winter.

The road was cleared on the Montana side on May 22, but a blizzard at the summit caused it to be reclosed. Crews work tirelessly through the spring to clear the highway, often encountering snowdrifts well in excess of 20-feet deep.

 

[TxGal]

Massive hail storm decimates Spain's fruit crop - Nectarines, peaches, etc

Takes place just before the harvest was set to begin. A massive hail storm on Tuesday evening in Lleida and Huesca hit the stone fruit growing areas of Torres de Segre, Soses, Alcarras, Aitona, Binaced,

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Massive hail storm decimates Spain’s fruit crop – Nectarines, peaches, etc
June 20, 2020 by Robert

Takes place just before the harvest was set to begin.

A massive hail storm on Tuesday evening in Lleida and Huesca hit the stone fruit growing areas of Torres de Segre, Soses, Alcarras, Aitona, Binaced, Binefar, Ximenells, Alcolea de Cinca, Bellver de Cinca and Fraga.

In total, an approximately 12,000 hectare swath of hail damage decimated Spain’s stone fruit crop (nectarines, peaches, etc.):

Spain: Massive hail storm could have huge impact on European stone fruit season

Thanks to H.B. Schmidt for this link

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1274383823606706182

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1274383823606706182

 

[TxGal]

Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbIckqYxIgQ


Food, Wealth and Bees Gone (998)
4,131 views
•Jun 20, 2020

Run time is 7:18

China finally confirming publicly 4/5 of regular harvest incoming this year, but other sources now saying 1/3 lost, this explains why a giant campaign to get farmers back to the country side to start farming while the central government raises vegetable prices to give newly resettled farmers a livelihood opportunity. New study out about "bee friendly" pesticides, they are not so "bee friendly" after all. Global trade and travel is shatters.

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, thanks. You beat me to it!

Short PM to follow - unrelated to video

 

[hummer]

I have not seen any honeybees so far.

 

[TxGal]

I have not seen any honeybees so far.

We're not seeing nearly as many as usual this time of year. Plenty of bumblebees, but not many honeybees.

 

[Martinhouse]

For several years I've only seen honeybees in early spring when my quince bushes are blooming. Then they are gone until the following year. The last three years I've had one, two, or three bumblebees and that's it. I didn't even have many butterflies last year.

Needless to say, I have lots of nice soft brushes for hand pollinating.