Way back in the mid 1980's a dear friend shared this book with me:

You can download the whole book here for free, legal and everything

Why was it so important to me, and does it remain so?

Because the entire book treats the subject of human life on earth, as well as natural earth geological processes, as well as climate change, as a holistic conversation that also has each and every component operating with interrelated, interdependent, and synergistic relationships.

The book goes to great length to describe the known glaciation cycles, the ebbing and flowing of a frozen northern hemisphere with warmer non-frozen periods.  The short version is our planet has spent the vast majority of geological time in Ice Age conditions, with brief and regularly scheduled inter-glacial periods.

There is no dispute about this amongst the scientific community.  Its a regular Al Gore style consensus (except this one it true and not a work of fiction).

The entire known history of humans just happens to have started when the last Ice Age ended.

The entire Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Egypt / ancient China / known civilization or cultural accomplishments of man wasn't on record until the last big ice melted.

Before that it was mostly folks gathering seeds and digging worms with sticks, and a few hardy Neanderthals chasing an occasional mammoth and trying desperately to avoid being eaten by a Sabertooth tiger.

There was no social welfare back then, if you were old or injured and couldnt keep up with the pack, you were left behind for the scavengers and predators.

In the modern day we will soon have Seven Billion humans breathing, eating, pooping and peeing on this spaceship.

And trying to grow food, and have a drop of water to drink now and then.

What is different in the modern day (now over twenty years later) is back in the 1980's the climate was thought to be a slow moving and changing system wiht long term micro adjustments that over long periods of time resulted in big changes.

This is no longer thought to be the case.

The very same ice core data that the CO2 / Global Warming pundits hang their hat on as the God All Mighty end all evidence of science, also reveal the transition from Ice age to non Ice Age has happened in the past on very quick time frames.

What does that mean?

What has science learned in recent times, based on the evidence and peer reviews and cross checks of data?

Instead of climate change happening over thousands of years like thought of not too long ago, the truth is climate change happens by natural cycles, and over historic times this change has really happened in time frames that can be measured in generations.

We have seen it happen.

The earth's surface lands, and the health of the bio-mass are tied directly to the health of the soil.  The health of the soil is a function of the state of the trace minerals contained in the soil.  These trace minerals, are part of the food chain for the microorganisms, which in turn become part of the nutrient chain for the plants, which in turn are the part of the nutrient chain for the animals, and the entire metabolic process of all life forms on earth is driven by solar energy.

Hamaker explains how the Ice Ages are really about replenishing the trace minerals in the soil.

The crushing and grinding of the glaciers as they expand, reduces rocks to dust.  This dust over thousands of years of glacial time replenishes the soil.

The warm interglacial periods are when the soil microbes and plants make a resurgence and reclaim the warmed temperate regions as the glaciers receded.

And so it goes, natural cycles.

What we knew back then was also that the Sun undergoes natural cycles too.

The sun spot cycles are related to solar energy output.

And animal population rise and fall based on the availability and consumption of resources.

The American Indians know this, they understood natural earth cycles, and the harmony that the inhabitants of the earth must share in order to have a sustainable coexistence.

We don't seem to.

Instead of narrow minded, single focus presentation of science fiction, as portrayed in Hollywood and in the media, my suggestion is we start learning about holistic behaviors, patterns, and consequences of our planet and its passengers.

Its all one game.

It may not be that all the players, are always in the game. 

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