How Will Climate Change Affect Us?

Here is a question I asked in the October 27, 2018 World Satsanga about climate change or global warming. I wrote a post describing “Future Earth” changes back in April 2014, but wanted to get an update on what to expect in the near future or the next ten to twenty years? How will climate change affect us?

From: Guy Needler 10-27-18…World Satsanga Recording and Transcript – Big Picture Questions.com & World Satsanga 27 10 2018

Background: This week the United Nations released a report that said this period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. Climate change is seen as record-breaking droughts, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat waves and poverty across the globe.

Scientists have warned that we have only a dozen years to do something about it before things get even worse with coastal flooding, coral die off, decreased fishing and crop yields, heat related mortality and mass migration of people from uninhabitable areas, etc.
Is this what our near future holds? Are there some new geo-engineering technologies (beyond electric cars, banning fossil fuels, etc.) that we can use to reverse this trend in our lifetime? OR is it inevitable and potentially catastrophic?
You have told us that there are centuries long cycles and shorter term climate cycles at play, as we and the planet ascend in frequency. But I’m asking about the near future, the next 10-20 years ahead. What do you see happening on the physical Earth?

Here is Guy Needler’s answer (summarized by me):

His understanding is that we are currently in a Mini Ice Age anyway, and so global warming is a natural function of a larger weather cycle. He said on top of that, there is influence, of course, by mankind. There is also influence as a result of animals as well, and the movement of animals and the functions of animals and the functions of man.

So there’s going to be changes. We’ve got a pole shift, which is in progress right now, which is causing magnetic problems and anomalies. It’s also causing issues with the jet stream, etc.
We are going to get warmer anyway naturally, but we haven’t got to the tropical stage of our particular cycle yet. That’s going to be some time in the future and well beyond my incarnate lifetime (see What Will Future Earth Look Like? – Big Picture Questions.com).

Mankind does have a significant part to play, but what we’re doing isn’t causing the big problems, the big things that are happening with the jet stream.

It’s simply a function of the big weather cycles as a result of the location of the Earth around the Sun, and the Sun’s location within the galaxy, and the rotation of the galaxy, etc. It’s a whole bunch of different things coming into play here.
We will go into another Big Ice Age eventually as well, but that’s thousands and thousands and thousands of years into the future.

What do you see happening in the near future?

In the next 10-20 years, we won’t experience a complete pole shift. The Earth has moved slightly on its axis as well, but the pole shift is happening and when it happens, it will be quite dramatic. We’re going to have some really quite devastating weather.

We will survive it and we’ll have to rebuild some certain things, but we’re going to be challenged a bit.

Basically, it will mean that things like flying will be a bit more difficult. Traversing the waters will be more difficult.
But at times, more and more hurricanes and typhoons, more turbulent air. We’ll start to get those more and more in the next ten to fifteen, twenty, thirty-five years.

But we’re going to go to an overall more temperate condition. So although we’re going to have more vicious weather, we’re going to eventually come out the other side, where we have a more moderate and temperate atmosphere.

So we won’t get the same variations in winter and summer that we’re currently getting.
There are certain places, where we are getting strange weather. For instance, the UK has had very temperate winters for a long, long time, but that will be seen across the globe.

Eventually, we will come out the other side. We’ll start to go back into more profound winters and more profound summers as a function of the location of the Earth. But we’re going to basically see more and more weather.

The jet stream will change again in its location, so when we see dips in the jet stream, it will be deeper dips, and that will cause changes in the climate in many places.

Where they were warm before, they will become more moderate than before.
Where they were more moderate, they will become warmer.
Where they were colder, they might start to warm up as well.

NASA Image: Record Global Warming Years (since 1880)

So we’re going to see some changes to the jet stream. We’re going to see certainly in the next 35 years some more glacial movement and more melting of the polar ice caps, but not massive stuff, just very small stuff. But it will be measurable by scientists, and it will add to the fuel of global warming, etc.

In some ways, it will help us to motivate ourselves to move forwards in terms of providing technologies that are going to make us more cleaner.

There still won’t be any agreement as to whether this is a natural thing or a manmade thing. So they’ll assume manmade, which is fine, because it helps to clean our act up.
We need to look after the Earth as it is.

There will be a greater understanding as well of the bigger weather system. But this is only going to be available to us, when this current civilization has another couple of thousand years under its belt.

That is if we don’t go into a downward trend, where we lose knowledge (like the Atlanteans, for instance).
If we can survive for another two thousand years and keep control of our technologies, progress frequentially, look after the Earth, we’ll start to see the records — the real records that show some of the bigger weather patterns.

We’ll start to understand how this is a function of the Earth, its location in orbit, its angle of axis and the magnetic poles and how they work.

And we will also look at it in terms of how we affect it as well properly, because we’ll have more information, more data and better ways of understanding, monitoring it and collecting the information and analyzing the information as well. So it’s going to get a bit more windy basically and a bit more moderate as well.

For some of us, it will be more like this… 😉