Dakota Beacon

Here are a couple of items which should be of interest, especially to those of us who are now beginning the winter season in the northern continental climate.  

First, here is a prediction which comes from NASA: A scientist has warned that Earth could be facing a mini ice age due to the Sun radiating less energy and heat toward our planet. According to the expert, this would mean that the planet would be plunged into a period of extreme winter and chilly cold storms during the next 30 years.

According to NASA, the Sun will reach its lowest activity in over two centuries in 2020. As a result of it going into a natural period of hibernation, Earth could see temperatures drop, resulting in food shortages on a global scale. The temperature could also drop by as much as one degree Celsius over a period of roughly 12 months—an incremental yet significant change in climate conditions that could have unpredictable results.

We should be concerned about our ability to grow crops, to find enough fuel to keep our selves (and our pipes) from freezing.  In the past ice ages this has been a problem.  Millions of people could die from the effects of another ice age.  This is not something we should take lightly.  For decades, this has been a prediction of those who study long-range climate, including those who supply energy and have reason to know these things.  This is one of my dad’s concerns for the future.    He studied this constantly because it was his calling to work on and plan for providing electricity for future Americans.  

Now, juxtapose this knowledge and science with this:  One of Bill Gates’ most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun.

From the Western Journal:  

According to Reuters, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.

The project represents one of the most controversial aspects of what’s known as “geoengineering” — the idea that, to tackle issues like climate change, massive aspects of our ecosystem can be played with or changed. In this case, it would involve reflecting some of the sun’s rays to stop them from reaching Earth.

Bill Gates is now best known as a philanthropist, not the guy who started Microsoft or was the avatar for everyone’s annoyance with Windows 95.

He’s also known for wanting to save us from ourselves.

Now, apparently, he wants to save us from the sun.

Gates, for those of you who don’t follow these things, has been big on both vaccination and pandemic prevention. Fair enough. That certainly means his moment has arrived.

However, he’s about as much of a lockdown guy as you can get — which is just fine if you’re a billionaire who can afford to hide away as if this were Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” but the real-world consequences for the rest of us can be, ahem, problematic.

However, while you may have been paying attention to his efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates’ most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun.

According to Reuters, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun’s rays.

“Open-air research into spraying tiny, sun-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, to offset global warming, has been stalled for years by controversies – including that it could discourage needed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,” Reuters reported.

“In a small step, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed this week to help Harvard researchers launch a balloon near the Arctic town of Kiruna next June. It would carry a gondola with 600 kg of scientific equipment 20 km (12 miles) high.”

The Harvard team, whose project is known as SCoPEx, is funded in large part by Gates, according to an August report in the U.K. Daily Mail. (Which gave the subject the wordy title: “Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming… but critics fear it could trigger calamity”)

Three years ago I broke my arm.  For "some reason" the bone never healed.  I finally resorted to surgery in order to regain the use of my arm and so as to be able to return to my other profession as a musician.  Two years later I had the surgery I needed in Rochester, MN.  Upon follow-up back at home, the doctor (not the one I had seen initially) noted that my levels of Vitamin D were so terribly low as to have precluded anything healing.  He urged me to be in the sunlight as often as possible.  This, he said, was the best way to reach the needed levels of Vitamin D, emphasizing once more that a lower-than-optimum level of this important factor would mean many health problems.  I got a massive prescription of this vitamin as well, but with the caution that I must spend time in direct sunlight.  We also now know the importance of Vitamin D in the case of COVID-19.  Those who die of this have severely low levels of Vitamin D.  What do you suppose a reduction in the rays of the sun might be on overall human health if Gates' little project suceeds in its objective?  This is one more thing to consider here.  One more among a thousand others.  This plan is a disaster in the making.  Who will pay the price?  Surely not Bill Gates.

Does else anyone out there think it is time to end this insane man’s career as God?  His stated goal is to decrease the human population of the earth.  Unless he is stopped soon he will succeed in totally depopulating the planet of not only human but animal and plant life as well.  It;s time to put this guy in a  straight jacket and carry him away to fantasize where he can do no more harm. 

Anyway, it’s something to think about on those cold mornings when your car won’t start, or those long cold nights when your furnace goes out  . . . or when you are worried about someone you care about freezing in a blizzard.  Maybe there is someone we can blame for it.  It is likely that he will end up in a very warm place.   

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