Surviving The Grand Solar Minimum

Welcome

Be Prepared – Boy Scouts

Things will always work out even when they don’t! - Author

Hello and welcome to the Grand Solar Minimum. While you may be wondering just what a Grand Solar Minimum is, you may not know that you are living in it now. According to John Casey, a NASA Space Shuttle Engineer, it started in 20019. While you may not have been shoveling 40-foot drifts of snow at your location, things will pick up at the end of the 2024 - 2025 winter. You may or may not know that the sun goes through a cycle every 11 or so years. The sun also goes through other cycles of around 200, 400, and even 3600 years. During these cycles, sunspot activity decreases and at the end of the cycle starts creating sunspots again. The number of sunspots during a cycle can be correlated to the activity of the sun and the amount of energy (solar irradiance or SI) directed toward the Earth. The weaker the cycle (fewer sunspots) the colder the earth seems to get during these periods.

While this book is about surviving the (Super) Grand Solar Minimum and things like food loss, breakdown of society, and bitter cold it is important to understand what is happening and the causes. If someone on the street yelled out The world is ending, you would probably just laugh and go on your way. I can understand that you may be skeptical at this point. I certainly was until I looked at the information and data. This book will cover what the data and cycles look like and why George Washington took his army across the frozen Delaware River to attack the British. If it's winter and you check that river now you will note that it is not frozen at all. But why?

Encouragement

While this book contains a lot of gloom and doom, it is not the intention of the author to be the West Coast dispenser of Doom. You will find out in the survival section that there are many opportunities in what is heading our way. You will need friends, family, and community to make it through and prosper. Hiding in a hole with 8 years of food is not the answer. While reading this book, keep one thing in mind. Global warming is a hoax. The earth is not warming and we will not be taking summer bathing vacations to the Arctic Circle. Your children will see snow and more than you could ever imagine. We have just popped out of a very warm period. Because of this, we could grow crops in places unheard of in colder periods. That is why the earth's population is approaching 7 billion plus people who need three good meals every day. That will soon change and there will be things that you can do for yourself and those around you. On the other side of the SGSM, there will be a better world, and it needs you to get there and make it that way.

A note about the Author

Things that I have done in my life

Ham Radio Operator, Scout Master, Non-degree Petrophysics, Engineer, Radar Technician, Electronics Technician, Trainer and Teacher, Global Server and Storage Support Engineer, Farmer, Father, Grandfather, and Hydroponics Grower and I run a Microgreens business. Last but not least in really bad financial times I was a simple Janitor! Of all the occupations, the Janitor part taught me humility and appreciation of people around me. Thank you for purchasing this book. I hope it makes you think and you very quickly start getting ready for the SUPER GRAND SUPER MINIMUM.

Questions that need to be answered

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There are some very gloomy things in this book. I would suggest that you focus on your goodness and the goodness of others. Getting through this will require a caring community. Anything less will only be destructive. The human mind and spirit is a wonderful thing if we only let it control our directions and choices.- Dennis DeLaurier - Author

What Does a Super Grand Solar Minimum Look Like?

The SGSM is nothing like modern man has ever seen

We live in interesting times

The following is a list of possible environmental and social problems:

·  Bitter Cold

·  Extremely Hot

·  Biblical 1000-Year Floods

·  Huge amounts of Snow and Ice in some locations

·  Droughts

·  High Winds

·  Very Large Hail

·  Huge to almost Complete Crop Losses

·  Starvation

·  Disease

·  Loss of life

·  Social Upheaval

·  Human Migrations

·  Fall of Governments

·  War

·  Electromagnetic Displays

·  Hot Dangerous Lightning

·  Increased Large Earthquakes

·  VEI3 to VEI7 or greater Volcanic Eruptions

·  Atmospheric Compression

·  High Cosmic Ray Environment

I could go on but you get the idea, I hope. Note that all of the above does not happen over the whole earth. Some places will be extremely hot and some so cold that you would have to be underground to escape and survive. Some places that were a desert will become islands of green and places that were prolific growing machines will have 20-year droughts. If the minimum which I believe is a SUPER one, all of the above will happen in spades. I think that this is true, but to get there we need to understand why.

One of the reasons people can’t wrap their minds around the SGSM is that they have not experienced anything quite like what is coming. What people know and have experienced goes a long way in how they consider or believe something as epic as the SGSM. Most people don’t want to believe something if it doesn't fit into their daily routines and beliefs. I can understand this and I see other reasons for this non-belief as well. Someone who has serious medical problems would not like to even think about it not being available.

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The Sun Controls the Weather

We may wish that global warming is a fact

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. ― Helen Keller

For millions of years, the Earth has been a child of the sun. Our sun was created by a Birkelan current many years ago. When it was finished forming, it became lit so to speak. In this lighting of the sun, it spat out our earth and other planets in a huge corona explosion. You may think that the sun is some sort of atomic power plant or reactor. It’s not that but a great plasma engine fed by Birkelan currents that flow through the universe. These currents when they encounter enough matter form what is called a pinch point and if there is enough matter at that point, a new sun is created. If there is not enough material, the new sun fails. If there is enough matter, a new sun turns on like a fluorescent tube in your home or office. This turning on is violent and it is this violent turning on of the star that planets are formed. The planets, our sun, the galaxy we live in, and the whole universe make up a great electrical circuit of plasma. Birkelan currents much like an electrical circuit power everything. Even you are an electrical being as well.

If you didn't learn this in High School or College, it’s not your fault.

When you talk about plasma and the sun, it’s all about heat. Obviously, you can feel the heat or thermal energy from the sun on your skin. The earth is no different than the skin on your arm or back. The oceans are great absorbers of heat from the sun and are great heat sinks. Much of the world's temperatures are controlled by how much energy is absorbed or released into our environment. As you know, water can be hot or cold. An example of oceans adding heat can be seen in what is called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This Circulation picks up heat and then transports it to northern latitudes off England. This warmer water keeps this part of Europe warmer than it would be if there was no circulation. After the heat is transferred (red Line), it becomes cooler and sinks (Blue Line) and then makes its return path back to pick up more heat. See the graphic below.

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If this circulation were to slow down or cease, then parts of Europe would be much cooler. Note that England is about as far north as Northern Canada or Alaska. Heating and cooling of the ocean's waters are then directly related to how much solar irradiance hits the earth especially its oceans. The earth’s oceans are so large that it takes a long time for oceans to heat or cool. The above graphic is Public Domain.

Star Formation

In the electrical universe, stars are formed along a string of Birkeland currents as talked about above. Below is an actual picture of this pinch that creates a star. We can only see Birkeland currents if there is enough gas so that the current can cause ionization (glow). This actual picture of M2-9 is quite amazing. The electrical Universe easily explains what is happening at M2-9.

At this point, if you become open to what has just been described about our sun, you will understand that weather and climate are controlled by the effects of plasma and Birkeland currents. Remember that when currents flow through an electrical conductor (like the wiring in your house) a magnetic field is created. Birkeland currents flowing through plasma are much the same, but plasma is the best conductor of electrical current in the universe. It’s totally amazing what happens to our sun and it all starts with electricity. If you are interested, you can learn more about the electrical universe by searching YouTube and the "Thunderbolt Project". Above graphic Courtesy of the Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA.

The string of pearls (stars) along Birkeland currents. 

Sunspots

Dark Spots on the Sun

It’s been known for a long time that the ups and down of the temperature during a solar cycle  are related (not caused by) to the number of sunspots. A raging sun has sunspots all over its face that gradually start at the suns north and south pole and gradually over the 11 or more years of the solar cycle head for the equator of the sun. When they finally get to the equator, a new cycle is started. During really long and cold periods like the Maunder Minimum which lasted from about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 sunspots were exceedingly rare.

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Note that we seem to be going into a period of lower sun spots (on the right).

Graphic CC BY-SA 3.0

So what causes sunspots?

Sunspots are darker-looking and cooler areas on the surface of the sun in a region called the photosphere. The photosphere has a temperature of 5,800 degrees Kelvin. While sunspots have temperatures of about 3,800 degrees K. Sunspots look dark only in comparison with the brighter and hotter regions of the photosphere around them.

Sunspots on the face of the sun

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Sunspots can be very large, up to 50,000 kilometers in diameter. They are caused by interactions with the Sun's magnetic field. The sun has 4 magnetic fields. Two in the northern part and two in the southern part. Graphic Public Domain.

When these magnetic fields are in phase (complimenting not opposing each other) sun spots are plentiful. When they are out of phase (canceling) there are fewer sunspots. The graphic below is a close-up of a sunspot. Sunspots can be larger than the Earth and typically last for only a few days. This high-resolution picture also shows clearly that the Sun's face is a bubbling sea of separate cells of hot gas (Plasma). These cells are known as granules. A solar granule is about 1000 kilometers across and lasts about 10 minutes.

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NOTE: The reason the coming Grand Solar Minimum is called a SUPER GSM is because all 4 magnetic fields will be going out of phase. Also note that during the Maunder Minimum only two of the magnetic fields of the sun were out of phase!

Graphic Public Domain

So Heads up. In the coming years, there should be very few sun spots or none at all.

Conclusions:

·  The sun controls much of the climate and weather on Earth

·  The total solar irradiance that hits the earth is directly proportional to sunspot numbers

·  The oceans absorb and give off heat into the environment.

·  While not discussed here, there are many other influences on global weather, but none of them are CO2, and only a little bit by humans.

The author contends that the worst thing humans are doing to our beautiful planet is pollution. Pollution has climate implications. Our upper atmosphere like the land we grow on has become a dumping ground. This must stop at some point or the implications will be all-encompassing.

The graphic below shows the slowly waning number of sunspots over the last three 11-year solar cycles. The next cycle may have a few spots or almost none. The graphic is Public Domain.

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Looking at the Sun

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha

In the graphic below, we see sunspots displayed graphically in two different ways. The top plot (Red butterfly plot) shows sunspots of frequency and position on the sun’s surface as they move from the polar locations on the sun toward the sun's equator. The wider and denser the butterfly plot the more intense the sunspot activity. On the black plot, sun spots are plotted as frequency and intensity. Note the frequency fall-off between 1980 and around 2015. The sunspot cycles are also numbered (12 through 23). Remember John Cases said that the GSM started around 2008 which would be cycle 24 which is not marked.

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So what is so special about sunspots? Well, during intense sunspot activity sun spots produce magnetic activity which is quite significant and strong and they are also