The year 536 A.D. is popularly known as “the worst year to be alive.”
What was so bad about it? Well, there was darkness for 18 months. And what was the cause of it? It was unknown for most of history, but climate change scientists have since discovered it was caused by a volcanic eruption.
As Science reported in 2018, the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine discovered that a massive volcano in Iceland erupted in 536 A.D. and spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere. It was followed by two other massive eruptions in 540 and 547 A.D.
Science cites medieval historian Michael McCormick, who noted that “Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record ‘a failure of bread from the years 536–539.’”
It also was cited as a likely cause of a deadly plague that killed around 50 million people. The Sun reported in 2019 that the eruption in 536 also led to “famine and a collapse of the global economy” while “Some experts even believe the eruptions are linked to a major plague pandemic. The Justinian Plague started in 541 A.D. and killed around as many as 50 million in just 12 months as it spread across the Mediterranean.”
Let’s be clear. I did not know the details about 536 A.D. until I read a piece by Joshua Phillips, titled, “Solar Geoengineering—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
As Mr. Phillips notes:
The United States is now investigating how to inject chemicals into the atmosphere in order to block out the sun.
The idea is to use a “stratospheric aerosol injection” to essentially mimic the effects of the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Interest in the concept started after a volcanic eruption in 1991 in the Philippines. Mount Pinatubo blasted 20 million metric tons of sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere. This sparked interest among climate change enthusiasts, because the natural disaster caused a cooling in global temperatures that lasted for two years.
Remember, the technology is meant to mimic the solar dimming effect of a massive volcanic eruption. If they did that using chemicals, it would last at least a year, and current proposals would drag this out for around 15 years.
Keep in mind that if this “blocking out the sun” insanity takes hold, it will not be reversible, and we could all be taken back to the darkness of 536 A.D., and subsequently be in for “the worst year to be alive” reincarnated!
7/18/23
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