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The "weird" weather we've been experiencing lately isn't due to humans!
It's happened before - the last being with what is known as the DALTON MINIMUM - between 1790-1830.
NASA had predicted a grand solar minimum to start in 2020, reaching its peak on 2025.
A solar minimum means a period of diminished solar activity in the 11-year cycle of the sun. The prediction is that this next solar cycle will be the weakest in 200 years - around the same level as the DALTON MINIMUM which occurred between 1790 to 1830.
However, NASA makes no mention of the brutal cold, famine, war and powerful volcanic eruptions associated with it.
We might be starting to experience this now.
The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine
The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine
It's happened before - the last being with what is known as the DALTON MINIMUM - between 1790-1830.
NASA had predicted a grand solar minimum to start in 2020, reaching its peak on 2025.
A solar minimum means a period of diminished solar activity in the 11-year cycle of the sun. The prediction is that this next solar cycle will be the weakest in 200 years - around the same level as the DALTON MINIMUM which occurred between 1790 to 1830.
However, NASA makes no mention of the brutal cold, famine, war and powerful volcanic eruptions associated with it.
NASA Predicts Next Solar Cycle will be Lowest in 200 Years (Dalton Minimum Levels) + the Implications - ElectroverseLike 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 in 2000 years: Mount Tambora’s VEI 7 on April 10, 1815.
The earthquakes and tsunamis that followed killed tens of thousands of people living on the surrounding Indonesian islands. But Tambora’s eruption wasn’t of much interest to Europe and the U.S., not initially at least — the news was focused on the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo on Sunday, June 18, 1815, in which the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the expense of 65,000 men.
Crops that had managed to sprout were frozen out in early June, replanted, and frozen again in July. Very few crops were actually harvested, and of those that were, the yields were very poor. In turn, food and grain prices skyrocketed — for example, in 1815, oats sold for $0.12 a bushel but by the next year, a bushel would set you back $0.92.
And the story was the same across the world:
We might be starting to experience this now.
The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine
The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine