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IT WILL BE COLD ON EARTH
http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-about-to-fizz-out-110614.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

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When I transcribed historical diaries (while doing my family genealogy) I learned that my grandfather had given his storage of wheat to the town of Dixfield/Peru during the 'Year Without a Summer" in the State of Maine (1816). I wondered what that was and that became the beginning of a whole new world opening up to explore.  Bottom line:  I ended up collecting daily sunspot numbers going back to the ancient Chinese and then graphing every sunspot number I could find.  I then collected unusual weather events and tried to correlate those events to sunspot numbers.  Next came all the IPCC reports and creating a database chart (about 460 pages) of every scientist named that credited themselves in the reports.  Any scientist who dropped out of the global warming belief was noted in my chart.

Then, I became familiar with the names of living solar scientists and turned to the message boards at www.solarcycle24.com.  Theodor Landscheidt was convinced we were headed for a new ice age, but the global warming crowd vilified him.  That was when I saw first hand how vile the Left was on this subject!  There was even a war on Landscheidts Wikipedia page with changes being made daily from the Left.  I also bought two books.  One was 'Maunder Minimum.'  The second was Lawrence Soloman's book, 'The Deniers.'  

Books will need to be written on this subject ... fascinating stuff!!!  I have the 2500 year chart of global temps on my wall at work ... no one is interested and if I give a sunspot report ... they are amused.  I'm amused that they are amused.  They know nothing!  http://www.longrangeweather.com/global_temperatures.htm

The Mass Bay Colony Records have stories of the cold weather, like Cotton Mather's 'An Horrid Snowe' and reports of the Boston Harbor freezing over and also being able to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on ice!  

Ice ages bring on famine, disease and war.  The Earth has a population of 7 BIL ... it could thin out quite quickly.  One more thing, Robert Felix at www.iceagenow.com says that, in addition to a Maunder-type ice age, we are also due for the big one, the 11,500 year event ... few would survive.

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Jane, you are one of the few people that I know who are even aware of the term 'Maunder Minimum' let alone can comprehend the ramifications of its assault on our thin veneer of civilization. Our culture is so fragile, and the world so overpopulated, that mankind is a disaster waiting to happen. Many years ago I read that all species will continue to multiply until they outstrip their food supply, and fear that is the precipice upon which we now stand.

Solutions to the immediate problem do exist. We are on the brink of world wide starvation and yet that can be avoided. I envisioned the solution many years ago and just recently put it in writing for others to see.
http://www.freedomrings1776.com/2011/05/new-edenthe-need-to-control-water.html#more
Still in the long view, even Eden would not be enough. Should we turn the entire planet into such a vision we would one day over run even Eden's ability to feed the mass of humanity that will not keep breeding habits in check.

Starvation and war have always been the great adjusters to population growth, but we, the scientific humanitarians of the West, decided to improve upon the laws of nature. We used our knowledge to "End" starvation, at least temporarily. Those who did not starve lived to reproduce. With medical improvements we extended the lifespan around the world, giving them yet more years to reproduce. Knowledge, sadly, does not equal wisdom, and through our foolish tampering we have stopped millions from starving only to have billions about to starve or die in another world war, and those who survive it will either be culled or enslaved by the New Masters.

Irony! My favorite word. We travel into space and view the far corners of the universe, and yet remain landlocked in the swamp of an apathetic, self indulgent, humanity. I stand here, near the end of my life, and as I look back over it, I too look back over the thousands of years of civilization and wonder about the future.

Will we ever get it right?