Dakota Beacon

Repeated from Part I

Practical solutions to one of the most contentious issues of our time have been ignored by those who believe they alone know what’s best for the rest of us. These partisans have posited the choice as either a free market driven fossil fuel economy or a central planned replacement of fossil fuels by other energy sources. Generations of school children have been taught that fossil fuels are destroying the planet and mankind is to blame.

Solar Activity’s Influence on Temperature

Sunspots have been recorded for centuries with Galileo being the first to correctly interpret them. The best known sunspot cycle is the Schwabe cycle of average 11 years (but varying from 7 to 17 years).

Geologists George Denton and Wibjorn Karlen, in the 1960s, discovered a 2,200 to 2,400 year cycle of “little ice epochs” by studying the edges of high mountain ice fields, ocean level changes, growth of stalagmites and stalactites, and from tree rings. Evidence is mounting that these cycles are caused by processes on the sun. The most recent 2,200 – 2,400 year Maunder Minimum occurred over 70 years between 1645 and 1715.

John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA Headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer has, for over a decade, researched into the sun’s activity, resulting in the discovery of solar climate “oscillations” of about 206 years. Between 1793 and 1830 (a period of 37 years) the most recent major solar minimum occurred, called the Dalton Minimum after British scholar, researcher, chemist, and mathematician John Dalton. It was preceded by a solar maximum that contributed to a less intense period of global warming at that time. By 1816 (23 years after it began), the Dalton Minimum was already taking global temperatures lower. Ample evidence exists to suggest that volcanic and earthquake activity also increase during a period of “solar hibernation” such as the Dalton Minimum.

Casey, after discovering the Bicentenial Cycle of 206 years (also previously called the deVries or Suess cycle), developed The Theory of Relational Cycles of Solar Activity (the RC Theory). As early as 2008, Casey believed that the next solar minimum would begin roughly between 2011 and 2022 and last 22 to 33 years with a minimum in about year 2031; A coming “cold era” extending from 2017 to 2045. The information in Mr. Casey’s book “Dark Winter” further convinces me that the solutions presented in Part I are not only rational but essential to the world’s prosperity as we enter a “Dark Winter”.

Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent Growing since 2016

Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent (measured in December of each year) was at a minimum in 2016 and looks to return to its long term (1981-2010) average of 12.8 million square kilometers (4.94 million square miles) by year 2025 and increasing in extent thereafter until at least the middle of the “cold era” in about 2031.

Average Land Temperature Plateaued from 2016-2019 and now Trending Down

Average Land Temperature Peaked in about 2015, flattened, peaked again in 2019, and is currently on a downward trend. It was difficult to even find this information because the government websites tend to omit data or curtail temperature reporting that does not fit the “Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Global Warming” (AGW) narrative.

The next book, to be discussed in Part III, will explain to you the multiple ways in which climate has been weaponized by world elites in order to extend their status and power for the long term. But first, a sneak preview of “Apocalypse Never” (© 2020) by pragmatic (as opposed to apocalyptic) environmentalist Michael Shellenberger:

Carbon Emissions Have Peaked

Carbon emissions have been declining in most developed nations for more than a decade. Implementation of carbon sequestration is now a reality.

Weather Deaths Minimized

Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80% over the last four decades.

Earth Warming Highly Unlikely

The risk of earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Horizontal drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Clean Coal technologies of the 21^st century have insured an ample supply of clean fossil fuel to keep us comfortable during then coming “Cold Era”. 

For the unconvinced among readers of this Part II, Mr. Casey’s book, “Dark Winter” (© 2014) is highly recommended. The reader can then personally decide if spending up to $10 Trillion to combat so-called “Climate Change” is preferrable to the solutions of Part I. The alternative is to continue fighting each other like pre-school children that government has not brainwashed… yet.

Love = Work + Courage