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 actually living in it now. According to John Casey, a NASA Space Shuttle Engineer, it started in 2008. While you may not have been shoveling 40 foot drifts of snow at your location, things will really pick up at the end of the 2019 - 2020 winters. 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 sun spots during a cycle can be correlated to the activity of the sun and the amount of energy (solar irradiance) directed towards 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 really happening and the causes. If someone on the street would yell out "the world is ending", you would probably just laugh and go on your way. I can really 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 its 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 solutions sections 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 that 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.
So please look at this book as a warning. Our global Big Agriculture will probably fail soon ,and prices will get higher than you thought they could. That is why YOU and your FAMILY and Your COMMUNITY needs to start growing food NOW. Get together and do a group think. Rent some land or create a community around some one that has land and water. As a community you can grow food for hundreds of people. Multiply that times a 1000 communities and a you are soon talking big amounts of food.