6.1: GSM Grand Solar Minimum: An Overview of What To Expect
6.2: Learning From History: 1816 The Year Without A Summer, Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death, and Grand Solar Minimum GSM
6.3: Why does solar activity matter to us?
6.4: Effects of Geomagnetic Activity Upon Human Health
6.5: CIA studied how geomagnetic storms impact psychic phenomena
6.6: Grand Solar Minimum Preparedness
Grand solar minima occur in roughly 400 year cycles.
The most intense cycles happen about every 396 years with medium cooling cycles about every 207 years.
We are at the start of a grand solar minimum right now which began to phase in around 2016.
Global temperatures have been cooling about 1.5-3C per year since that time.
Conditions are likely to last until 2070 according to some projections.
For most of us, this will be the rest of our lives.
Researching the Wolf, Sporer, Maunder, and Dalton grand solar minima to learn more about what conditions were like during these periods of time can help us make educated choices about the ways in which we prepare for known issues which would be statistically likely to recur.
We need to carefully prepare for the possibility of life threatening conditions because grand solar minima can have dramatic impacts on both weather patterns and global food production.
If you have ever prepped for a hurricane, imagine prepping for conditions that last not only weeks but entire years during which, depending upon where you live, you may not be able to grow crops at all.
Regardless of “seasons,” if you live on or near the 45th parallel, growing plants without power and an indoor grow light setup will be pretty much impossible.
This would likely catch you off guard if you hadn’t done ample research, so we want to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Surviving what amounts to a mini Ice Age requires a great deal of foresight and planning which spans home, business, energy, infrastructure, food production, logistics, medical care, and many other facets of day to day life that we tend to take for granted.
To get a better idea of what this type of preparedness plan would entail, please read through this PDF provided by James Marusek, retired US Navy nuclear physicist and engineer of Bread and Butter Science.
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