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Subject: Research and planning is the most important thing you can do

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Allen Currie

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Date Posted: 11:26:56 03/20/13 Wed

The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) will undoubtedly change the life of anyone alive today more than any life has been changed in history, if only because we have climbed higher than ever before in history, and now have further to fall. A couple of examples leap to mind. In the 1500’s many things had to be reinvented that were in existence in the 900’s before the dark ages. 2) In 1990 when the USSR went down, the hi-tech things like atomic submarines sat and rusted and polluted to the extent that Russia INVITED the US to come in and rescue them. The fact that we have hi-tech does not necessarily mean that it will survive. 3) How many people alive today can even imagine how to cope with even the conditions that existed in the dirty 30’s. As one of the people who can remember, I KNOW how few. Damned few. And they are all 75 or older.

In Feb. 1987 when someone jiggled the jigsaw enough that a picture of where we were headed formed for me, I began to prepare. I bought paper gold thinking I would be rich after. During the crash of 1987, I was serene. As the crash unfolded I learned, a LOT. Gold was not enough, and certainly not paper gold. I had to be able to bug out too, as well as being somewhat self sufficient. Then it became apparent that being in an isolated area was far better. I picked the west coast where mankind has survived for ten thousand years, until I was reminded that the Juan de Fuka tectonic plate I was thinking of residing on was being ground to bits and driven under the North American plate. Besides it was 4,000 miles away and packing and moving there was not going to be accomplished overnight. Ooops. I was missing a whole lot of things I should be thinking about. Some were natural, some were man made.

Being a glider pilot, I stay aloft by knowing a bit more about weather than the average bear. What I knew persuaded me that, in human terms, great weather change was coming. I studied the real experts, not the five second training, instant screaming types and found a couple of very significant probable trends. No point in moving to an area that was going to turn to desert or an ice capped island just about the time you got your settling in problems solved which will take about five years.

1) The world is adding 300 million new mouths to feed each year. Glider pilots know the easiest way to find rising air is to find a nice black ROOFTOP, or blacktopped highway. The sun heats it more quickly than the surroundings producing hot, rising air. CO2 does retain heat, but the real experts say it only contributes two percent to global warming. Much of the balance comes from the forests being turned to black earth to feed that extra 300 million new mouths per annum. That alone, even in the short term, is enough to effect significant climate change.

2) There exists an ocean desert off the coast of Chile which now just touches Chile’s west coast. Ocean deserts are especially vicious. One land based weather station in that desert has never recorded ANY precipitation in its 100+ year existence. The probability is that that desert will expand within the next decade. The current increasing drought conditions in Texas and elsewhere lend credence to this theory. That desert is projected to expand east half way through Brazil, then due north into the US to about the latitude of California’s north border, then west out to sea. Will the loss of the SW quarter of the USA (and central America) affect world food production? How about those who bug out to the mountains? It certainly will affect weather permanently throughout North America, if it comes to pass that permanent hot desert will create a high which will deflect the jet stream. The jet stream now varies from moving more or less east near the Canadian border to continuing south along the Rockies, bringing precip to the western US before heading east and then north. With the high in place, it would likely track directly east about the latitude of the Canadian border. Not good for anyone living in what may become desert.

3) I also found that there were concerns about the Japan ocean current which runs more or less north-east to North America, then turns north to Alaska, where it cools sufficiently that the water becomes saline enough that the current sinks and begins its long journey back to the equator to pick up more calories of heat. (The Gulf stream, which flows up the Atlantic coast is slowing too) Water can carry huge quantities of calories per cubic whatever. Global warming plus the addition of more fresh water was disturbing the saline balance of the current to the point that the current is in danger of not turning down for the return trip, thus stopping it entirely.

Mother nature will still try to move those calories and her only tool to do so will be air, which holds many less calories per cubic whatever. This means she must move a far greater volume, faster. That means unprecedented storms. Fast moving hurricanes will likely become daily events. True, the EASTern slopes of the Rockies will probably benefit as the warm, humid air is pushed up and over the Rockies, cooling it enough that precipitation is the result.

Not that we can be positive these things will happen, but now we know there is a risk, it would be foolish to ignore it. I began to seriously look at every possible future I could think of, both from natural causes such as solar flares to, man-made causes such as financial collapse. AND to make notes. These notes and my ‘immediate risk’ analysis led directly to my novel “Operation Phoenix” available as both a download or as a hard copy at www.AllenCurrie.ca. A free sample read is available.
More to come in a couple of weeks.
Allen Currie

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