Introduction to Blogs

AIMS

Wake up call to the church – of need to stand up for values of Judeo-Christian Tradition

increase awareness of our lost freedoms and threats to our democracy

Research into both International communism and impact of the current Grand Solar Minimum

Hello Everyone!

Welcome reader to my new ventures of both a website to be used to post regular blogs and a self published book, using Kindle Direct Publishing, called Freedoms Lost: Democracy under threat which can be found on the Amazon website as both an eBook and paperback. More details can be found on this websites page called “Link to book Freedoms Lost.”

I will aim to post the Blogs most months, they will be about four subjects:

Firstly – The threat to democracy including loss of our freedoms in Western countries.

Secondly – The need to defend against the attacks on the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Thirdly – The advancing dominance & threat of International Communism.

Fourthly – The need to prepare in the current Grand Solar Minimum.

Hello everyone

July 31, 2024

Blog – posted September 08. 2024:

BACKGROUND ABOUT GRAND SOLAR MINIMA

One of the themes of my blogs will be concerns about the current Grand Solar Minimum. However, most people are not aware of the background science behind this so this blog is a brief overview of the Research about Grand Solar Minima.

DECREASING SUNSPOTS & CONFLICTING VIEWS ABOUT GRAND SOLAR MINIMA –

I will give a quick overview of: the forecast of future sunspots by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration -NOAA, & conflicting views about Grand Solar Minima.

The sun is immense in both size and power. Constant nuclear fusion creates radiant light & heat. It has layers of magnetic fields with overlapping torques. Small dark spots observed on the surface of the Sun are called Sunspots, they are the entry or exit points of magnetic arcs. Their number reflects the activity of the Sun. The least number of sunspots are observed in a Solar Minimum & the most in a Solar Maximum. These occur in a regular 22 year cycle. Every 400-500 years there is a reduction in the radiant power of the sun for a few decades, this is called a Grand Solar Minimum. In the late 1600s – this resulted in many of the rivers & canals of Northern Europe to freeze over – it was called the Maunder Minimum. It is generally accepted that we are now entering a Grand Solar Minimum. NOAA publishes forecasts of the number of sunspots – they will become low in number in the 2020s and then gradually decrease to zero by July 2040.¹

In 2015 Nils-Axel Morner, the former head of Paleo-geophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University, published a paper about Grand Solar Minima. In the Abstract he wrote:

“By about 2030-2040, the Sun will experience a new grand solar minimum. This is evident from multiple studies of quite different characteristics, the phasing of sunspot cycles, the cyclic observations on North Atlantic behaviour over the past millennium, the cyclic pattern of cosmogenic radionuclides in natural terrestrial archives, the motions of the Sun with respect to the centre of mass, the planetary spin-orbit coupling, the planetary conjunction history and the general planetary solar terrestrial interaction. During the previous grand solar minima – i.e. the Sporer Minimum (ca 1440-1460, The Maunder Minimum (ca 1687-1703) and the Dalton Minimum (ca 1809-1821) – the climatic conditions deteriorated into Little Ice Age periods.” ²

Prior to 2011 NASA emphasized, on their website, the importance of the Sun in relation to our climate and that we will experience cooler weather during the new Grand Solar Minimum:     “The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth’s climate system. Sunlight warms our world; sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns…the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world’s climate system and makes possible life as we know it…our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling, perhaps a new ice age. However, a new force for change has arisen, humans…Other important forcings of Earth’s climate system include such ‘variables’ as clouds, airborne particulate matter, and surface brightness, each of these varying features of Earth’s environment has the capacity to exceed the warming influence of greenhouse gases and cause our world to cool” ³

However, in 2019 NASA posted, on their website, a different view of the Sun’s role in affecting the Earth’s climate and of the minimal effects of Grand Solar Minima:                                                           “According to the UNs IPCC the current consensus is that long & short term variations in solar activity play only a very small role in Earth’s climate. Warming from increased levels of human produced greenhouse gases is actually many times stronger than any effects due to recent variations in solar activity…Some people have linked the Maunder Minimum’s temporary cooling effect to decreased solar activity, but that change was more likely influenced by increased volcanic activity and ocean circulation shifts. Moreover, even a prolonged ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ or ‘Maunder Minimum’ would only briefly and minimally offset human-caused warming.” ⁴

                In 2019 Russian Scientists published data from tree rings which clearly demonstrate significant cooling events have occurred during previous episodes of Grand Solar Minima:

“To investigate the possible Sun-climate connection the regional tree-ring chronology covering the period 1445-2005 was analysed. A total of 36 timber cores of pine Pinus sylvestris L. were sampled…the data were processed using modern methods…the analysis revealed significant cooling events, coinciding with the Spoerer (1400-1340), Maunder (1645-1715), Dalton (1790-1830), and Gleissberg (1880-1910) Grand Solar Minima…” ⁵

                Grand Solar Minima (GSM) also affects our climate by causing increased cloud cover, increased Volcanic activity and flooding:

“Cosmic rays are highly energetic atomic nuclei or other particles (e.g. protons) travelling through space at a speed approaching that of light…. When cosmic rays enter Earth’s atmosphere, they disintegrate in a cascade into subatomic particles which act as cloud condensation nuclei by ionization and thus instigate low level cloud formation… In 1997 Henrik Svensmark & Eigil Friis-Christensen, [at the Danish Space Research Institute], popularised a theory that linked galactic cosmic rays and global climate change mediated primarily by variations of the intensity of the solar wind [positive ions and electrons, 95%of which are from Hydrogen atoms – emitted from the sun – creating a magnetic field] …Variations in the Sun’s activity alter the influx of cosmic rays to the earth. When the Sun is lazy, magnetically speaking, there are more cosmic rays, more low clouds, and the world is cooler. When the Sun is active fewer cosmic rays reach the Earth with fewer low clouds and the world warms up.”

The effects of GSM on volcanic activity has been summarised by Sasha Dobler:

“As a further complication of GSM, cosmic rays that make it to Earth and enter the surface, can trigger earthquakes and volcanoes and other tectonic anomalies. The penetrating particles (cosmic ray muons) from space decrease the viscosity of silica-rich magma. As a consequence of these eruptions, increased amounts of volcanic aerosols and gases can generate global dimming and further cloud nucleation, leading to more cooling and crop failure, another feedback mechanism.”

The mechanism whereby GSM causes floods is summarised by David DuByne:

“In a GSM, cosmic ray added cloud layers trigger larger flash floods, hailstorms and due to jet stream disturbances with mixing of atmospheric layers, local long-duration precipitation events (atmospheric compression events) resulting in the ‘once in a 200 year flood’ you are seeing planet wide in 2019.” ⁶

Valentina Zharkova, a Ukrainian Astrophysicist based at Northumbria University in the UK, has formulated a mathematical model of the Sun’s activity related to its magnetic fields. This predicts that we have entered a Grand Solar Minimum, the potential impact of which, she described in an editorial in 2020, from which 3 paragraphs are quoted below:

“In this editorial I will demonstrate with newly discovered solar activity proxy-magnetic field that the Sun has entered into the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053) that will lead to a significant reduction of solar magnetic field and activity like during the Maunder minimum leading to noticeable reduction of terrestrial temperature…

“However, not only solar radiation was changed during Maunder minimum… A significant reduction of the solar magnetic field during grand solar minima will undoubtedly lead to the increase of intensity of galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays which, in turn, lead to a formation of high clouds in the terrestrial atmospheres and assist to atmospheric cooling as shown by Svensmark.⁷The reduction of a terrestrial temperature during the next 30 years can have important implications for different parts of the planet on growing vegetation, agriculture, food supplies, and heating needs in both Northern and Southern hemispheres. This global cooling …would require inter-government efforts to tackle problems with heat and food supplies for the whole population of the Earth.” ⁸

1 Predicted Sunspots on NOAA website https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/predicted-sunspot-number-and-radio-flux

2 Morner, N-A (2015) The Approaching new Grand Solar Minimum and Little Ice Age climate conditionsNatural Science, 7, 510-518. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ns.2015.711052

3 David DuByne, Bill & Richard Porter called Climate Revolution: the Grand Solar Minimum pages 14-15.

4 NASA Science Editorial Team( Sept 06, 2019) What is the Sun’s role in Climate Change? https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/what-is-the-suns-role-in-climate-change/

5 Kasatking E.A., Shumilov O.I., Timonen (2019) Solar activity imprinted in tree-ring data from Northwestern Russia. Journal of Atmospheric & Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 193, 15 October 2019 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364682618306825

6 David DuByne, Bill & Richard Porter called Climate Revolution: the Grand Solar Minimum pages 79-86 .

7 Svensmark et al (2017) Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei. Nature Communications. 2017;8:2199 Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei | Nature Communications

8 Valentina Zharkova (2020) Editorial: Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling. Temperature, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2020. http://doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2020.1796243

New blog posted 15/11/2024
- Attack on the Judeo-Christian tradition in Europe
- Increasing instability and/or increased left wing control of governments in Europe
Introduction

In this month’s blog I will focus on events in the UK and Europe.

This Monday, 11^th November, was Remembrance day – when across Europe and the Commonwealth – we remembered those who sacrificed their lives in conflicts – they courageously fought so that we could be given the opportunity to live in freedom.

We remember them.

In my book, Freedoms Lost: Democracy under Threat, I have discussed how we have a duty – to continue to uphold the values which they fought for – including the Judeo-Christian Tradition which underpins our freedoms and the democratic governance of our countries.

Threat to the Judeo-Christian tradition in Europe

Escalation of anti-Semitism

An Israeli football team play in a European League – and last week they played a Dutch team in Amsterdam.

After the match the Jewish fans were hounded through the streets and physically assaulted such that they could not get back to the airport safely. They hid in hotels or even jumped into canals – to escape the gangs chasing them – who were shouting “Free Palestine.”

The Dutch King Willem-Alexander said that his country “failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War Two, and last night we failed them again.”

The Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that this was an “anti-Semitic pogrom.”

The Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said that this shameful incident should be a “watershed moment for Europe and the world.” ¹

Assisted Dying Legislation

This month, November 2024, an assisted dying bill will come before parliament at Westminster. This has been pushed through quite quickly by the new Labour government.

There has been preliminary work examining public opinion, including the organisation of groups of people to discuss the issue. I have just completed an online survey organised by my local MP.

I am not aware that theological & moral issues relating to this bill have been fully formally assessed by this government – who are pushing for this to come into law.

I would suggest that previous generations would have included seeking the opinions of senior religious leaders of our land; such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi and leaders of other faiths. Surely, if we as a society are contemplating – deliberately ending an individual’s life who has committed no crime- this action also relates to faith.

David Frost, a conservative MP, has written an article in which he says that this bill threatens the Judeo-Christian tradition. He outlines the evidence that this would be a “slippery slope” – even with tight conditions outlined at the start – over time these would inevitably become relaxed.                                         In Canada: nearly one in 20 deaths are now by euthanasia, it is not just for the terminally ill now and from 2027 will include those who only have a mental health disorder.

Belgium: now allows euthanasia at any age.

Frost goes on to discuss the underlying utilitarian ethical framework of this bill:

“As far as I can see the last thing our modern rulers want to do is enforce Judeo-Christian morality…they see their job, rather as a utilitarian not moral one: how to use the government to make people’s lives more convenient, more pleasant, less painful, less difficult…I am unnerved by the prospect of a state that is unmoored by morality in that way. In the long run such a government, is a dangerous government, for there is no limit to what it will do, or allow, if it thinks it is in the wider collective interest.” ²

Increasing instability and/or left-wing control of governments in Europe

The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Rishi Sunak, and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, inexplicably both called elections earlier than was necessary, which were then held in June and August of this year respectively. In these two influential countries of Europe, these elections have resulted in the balance of power shifting towards the Left.

In France the outcome of the election in June has also resulted in an unstable coalition – which is an even greater problem in Germany. Germany’s fragile coalition has now collapsed – and a snap election was called this month.

In France – There was a turbulent election in June 2024.

After the first vote, on June 15^th, 500,000 Left-wingers marched in France’s cities shouting anti-fascist slogans – this because the right wing party, led by Marie Le Penn, had gained the most votes. ³

The centrist parties led by Emmanuel Macron were forced to do a deal with the communist parties for the next vote, when both withdrew selected candidates, in this three way tussle –

In the second vote – this deal resulted in the communists, in alliance with other left-wing parties, gaining the most votes overall and a decreased success for Le Penn.

There is now an uneasy coalition ruling France, with the Left-wing parties having more power. ⁴

In Great Britain -The Labour Party, under Keir Starmer PM, was elected in August 2024 –

Their policies since elected have been more left wing – than those laid out in their Manifesto:

Labour supports the left wing unions & has given them large pay offers, following their prolonged strike action – and made a recent offer of a 4 day week to Tube train drivers. ⁵

Labour has freed many prisoners early from prison – citing overcrowded prisons – but this has been a radical action and has included releasing some criminals who are likely to reoffend. ⁶

Keir Starmer encouraged strong, quick, justice after the riotsfollowing the Southport attack when three children were killed – this resulted in imprisonment for people who posted concerns about Islamic terrorism on social media. The police said at the time that terrorism was not suspected – but have since revealed that the perpetrator was radicalised by Islamist literature.⁷

Labour have quickly pushed through the Assisted Dying Bill – which is discussed above.

In their recent budget: –

Labour plan to increase the size of the “state” at the expense of the private sector.                              With a double whammy for small businesses of increased employer NI payments & a marked increase in the minimum wage. The public sector has received some protection.

Labour has changed the tax status of private schools – this means that parents now will have to pay about £2000 more a year, and has already resulted in some private schools closing.

Labour has changed the inheritance tax rules for farmers – taking away the bedrock of the farming of our country – family farms. If families are forced to sell their farm – many of these farms do not go on to be used for food production. This threatens our food security.

Labour are to spend billions of pounds on net-zero policies.

Including now permitting land based new wind farms & large areas of fertile land to be covered with solar panels – which decreases the land for farming – & threatens energy security if there is 0no wind or sun. ^8-10

Labour did not increase Defence spending enough in the budget to adequately defend our country and have now banned coal mines making our steel industry dependent on imports from China and Russia.¹¹

In Germany: The coalition government has collapsed & a snap election was called on 6^th November 2024 by the Chancellor, Olaf Shultz. Tensions within the coalition include the management of immigration, Net-zero policies and the shrinking of the German economy.         The election will be held as early as, February, 2025.

The government in Germany has been unstable since 2021, with three parties ruling together in an increasingly fragile coalition. It isknown as the traffic light coalition referring to the traditional colours of the parties – the Social Democratic Party is red, the Free Democratic party is yellow, and the Greens – with other parties also involved. ^12-13

Democracy, undergirded by the Judeo-Christian tradition, is under threat, I believe, as the governance of influential countries in Europe changes:

With unstable coalitions, as in Germany and France, making them very difficult to govern.

Or the constant move towards left-wing ideology as in Great Britain and France.

In both these situations they are now mainly being governed using Utilitarian ethics – with Judeo-Christian values threatened.

Caroline Broadhurst 15/11/2024

References

Regular Blogs about: The threat to democracy, the Judeo-Christian tradition. Also research about International Communism & possible impact of Grand Solar Minimum

Introduction to Blogs

Hello everyone

Blog – posted September 08. 2024:

New blog posted 15/11/2024