IAF Podcast Episode 13

Episode 13, aired September 11, 2017.

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Intro

Christian's thoughts, given the onset of September, and the palpable acceleration of extreme weather and seismic events related to the Grand Solar Minimum -- as we have been discussing and expecting for some time.

Icebreaker: Grand Solar Minimum Symptoms

There are several lessons learned from studying very early global cooling events in Europe. (See also Episode 5. These include (from J. Marusek, 2009):

• 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.