{"id":1363,"date":"2016-07-02T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2016-08-04T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:33:37","slug":"global-swerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/global-swerves\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Swerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritdaily.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2016\/30jun16\/blanksun_strip.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>And so we are in the heat of summer, in those places, that is, where there is not an unseasonable cool.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Such is our weather, our climate. Such are our times.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>There are swerves in the meteorological systems just as there are swerves (in so many places), nearly as if a mirror, across society.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Right now, the sunspot activity has diminished to the point of non-existence &#8212; those &#8220;storms&#8221; on the sun that often determine the temperatures and auroras of earth. We just went through a week without any.\u00a0The last time that happened was in 2010 &#8212; a sign that what they call a &#8220;solar minimum&#8221; is supposedly coming.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>As a website dedicated to &#8220;spaceweather&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">www.spaceweather.com<\/span><\/a>) tells us:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong> &#8220;The sunspot cycle is like a pendulum, swinging back and forth every 11-years or so between times of high and low sunspot number.\u00a0 The next low is expected in 2019-2020. Between now and then sunspots will become increasingly rare with stretches of days, then weeks, then months of &#8216;billiard-ball suns.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>It can be interesting when such &#8220;minimums&#8221; become prolonged.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Such occurred back at the end of the Middle Ages, when a period of global warming (the earth&#8217;s temperatures nearly reached what they are today) suddenly turned into global\u00a0<em>cooling<\/em> &#8212; and a &#8220;little ice age.&#8221; Think George Washington and the icy rivers near Valley Forge, or how folks could walk, on the ice of the Hudson, from New Jersey to Manhattan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/jet-stream-runs-from-pole-to-pole.png?w=600&amp;h=493\" alt=\"Jet Stream Runs from Pole to Pole\" \/>Unfortunately, that swerve in weather severely affected agriculture, causing famine that opened the way to the spread of disease, in this case bubonic plague across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Are we simply in a short cycle or one day soon might there be a repeat of what occurred back then?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>You have that, and then the great complexities of things like the earth&#8217;s magnetism and its interplay of magnetism from space. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The key point is not so much which direction as the potential, in the future, for quick, unusual, historic change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Some think &#8220;gigantic gravity waves&#8221; will mix summer with winter in certain regions where the jet stream (greatly affected by magnetism) will be disrupted &#8212; literally swerving in new ways.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/robertscribbler.com\/2016\/06\/28\/gigantic-gravity-waves-to-mix-winter-with-summer-wrecked-jet-stream-now-runs-from-pole-to-pole\/\" target=\"_blank\">One blogger describes<\/a><\/span> what is transpiring as &#8220;the very picture of weather weirding due to climate change, something that would not tend to happen under normal climate conditions, something, that if it continues on a significant scale, may threaten seasonal integrity.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>At LaSalette in France, the Virgin was once said to have foreseen that <em>&#8220;seasons will be altered.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>No better meteorologist than she.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>What they call upper level zonal winds are varying widely, and wildly &#8212; intermixing aspects of the hemispheres.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Will that continue? Will the cool periods give way to sustained warmer ones?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>And might the sun surprise &#8212; step up sunspots again instead of cycling into that &#8220;minimum&#8221;?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Summer is only starting.<\/strong><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/commdiginews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NASA_Prominence_Y20120416.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/robertscribbler.com\/2016\/06\/28\/gigantic-gravity-waves-to-mix-winter-with-summer-wrecked-jet-stream-now-runs-from-pole-to-pole\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>[Resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/mhb-116.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Sent To Earth<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">]<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>[For more books and products, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/span>] <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/ret-14.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Retreat, October 29, 2016<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"signs\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1467458077\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Global Swerves\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so we are in the heat of summer, in those places, that is, where there is not an unseasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[219,220,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-1363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-signs","7":"tag-middle-ages","8":"tag-middle-ages-bubonic-plague","9":"tag-sunspot","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}