h/t to reader “Amino”
Now, an equable climate had pertained in Europe about a thousand years ago, and by the 14th century, that had deteriorated into a long period called the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age saw harsh winters, severe storms, and also extreme variability. That means you could see mild winters and then very severe winters, summer heat waves, droughts, sea storms and floods. The Little Ice Age persisted about 500 years, abating only in the 19th century in some places.
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On the afternoon of August 3, 1562, a thunderstorm struck central Europe across a front several hundred kilometers long. After raging for several hours, the storm unleashed a terrific hail that continued until midnight. It destroyed crops. It destroyed vineyards, birds and unprotected horses and cows.
Diarists then noted something that we hear today. They said for a hundred years, such a storm had not been seen. The storm was deemed so unusual in this period of superstition that it had to be unnatural. It had to be supernatural. Thus, superstition and witchcraft bred a precautionary response. Eradicate those responsible for the storm and this period of new storminess.
Now, it was well known that people could cook weather with the help of Satan CO2, so thus did extreme conditions of the severest part of the Little Ice Age contribute to Europe’s most horrific period of mass executions and witch trials. This was completely legal, and it was undertaken, administered, by highly educated upper social strata. These were institutionally legalized executions for sorcery. There are many reasons for these trials, but some of them are related to weather cooking, that is, working with Satan CO2 to produce these severe storms. The estimates now are about 50,000 executions across Europe, and no country was spared of this.
Sallie L. Baliunas
Astrophysicist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?eventID=111#4
Nice. I hadn’t heard that before – parallels between the witch trials for ‘weather cooking’ during the LIA and today’s irrational global warming hysteria and calls for sceptics to be imprisoned for ‘crimes against humanity’.
Mann, Jones and their fellow activist “scientists” are today’s Witch Finder Generals – and the likes of Gore, Pachurai and Obama their corrupt sponsors in government. GreenPeas, WWF and the MSM are the scheming young girls, histrionically accusing innocents of being witches and blaming them for bad weather.
Yes – anyone who ever watched Arthur Miller’s Crucible and felt the sting
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of injustice should realise it’s the exact same irrational superstitious nonsense going on today – with the same sinister motives and vested interests behind it.
So after over 400 years, the general populace is as stupid as it was in the 16th century, with the elite posturing as society’s protectors. Isn’t that just so special.
I don’t know if the general population is a stupid as it was in teh 16th century they are however just as suceptable to information without context or semi credible hysteria
I don’t know if the general population is a stupid as it was
I think they are. Nothing has changed.
“That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.”
~Solomon
Intelligence capacity is probably the same, however, critical thinking skills are completely lacking.
I thank AAM for providing that and you for posting.
The weather we are experiencing could be the result of still being engulfed n the LIA type of weather pattern as there is evidence we have not yet reached the weather conditions from the MWP, RWP, or Minoan Warm Period and each succeeding warm period was cooler than the previous one. The warm periods have also been getting shorter so the warming from the LIA may have stopped in 1934 and we are now drifting back to the cooler experience. All we have to show otherwise is adjusted data. and scientific opinions based on biased research.
The above quote is a transcript of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1CKKhN7ng
I realized that when I read it and I thank you again. I had read the information either from some of her work or the work she got her information from. The comments do need to be repeated to balance the fear mongers claiming the “Witches are at it again”.