Rolf Witzsche: Grand Solar Minimum becomes the Ice Age
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The concept of "The Grand Solar Minimum" is a deception because the next Grand Solar Minimum will be the full Ice Age, scientist and author Rolf Witzsche argues in this presentation.
The underlying support for the Sun no longer exists for a reversal back to 'normal' to be possible from any Grand Minimum, Witzsche claims.
The rapid collapse of the interstellar plasma density for the Solar System has diminished the background for the for the powering of the Sun past the point for a possible reversal back to normal. We see the collapse of the solar system evident in the weakening Sun, the diminishing sunspot numbers, and solar-wing pressure, and in ever-greater cosmic-ray flux and larger coronal holes (measured by NASA's spacecraft).
The end result promises to be worse than nuclear war, and more certain, if humanity fails to meet the Ice Age challenge by building itself a New World with such great economic power as will enable humanity to live securely in an otherwise largely uninhabitable world, and prosper therein.
If this challenge is taken up a higher-level paradigm will develop for humanity by which today's terror, conflicts, wars, even nuclear war, economic looting, imperial control, and depopulation policies, will be laid aside as mistakes unworthy of humanity.

Video courtesy Rolf Witzsche
Teo Blašković founded The Watchers in 2011 and edited it until 2026, covering seismic and volcanic activity, extreme weather, space weather and near-Earth objects. Articles on this page are his archive.
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I’m hard of hearing. I really want to to know what the good Doctor is saying. Is there a chance you could re-publish this video with sub titles. Thanks, Charlie
I think this “primer fields” talk amounts to scientific bullshit promoted originally by fly-by-night David LaPointe, who essentially bugged out on the idea. OOOhhhh! Be afraid! The Primer Fields are going aaawwwaayyyy! Bluntly, f**k that nonsense. We don’t need it for any cyclic end to the present Interglacial.
Whelp, that was an amazingly wrong and stupid post. And here I thought The Watchers had some interest in real science. Deleting from my news feeds now…
If you were anything but troll, you’d provide some real science
IF (and I doubt it) this prediction of a coming ice age is correct then nothing will kill off humans better than an ice age. If by 2030 the ice caps are growing then this prediction will be true. Given that Morocco and a few other areas have received snow then this should just be called a statistical fluke.