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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George, and

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Speaker 1: are you with you? We will take your calls next

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Speaker 1: hour with Robert Felix, author of Not By Fire But

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Speaker 1: by Ice and Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps. Robert is

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Speaker 1: a former architect. He became interested in ice age cycles

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Speaker 1: way back in nineteen ninety one and spent the next

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Speaker 1: eight and a half years full time. We're searching writing

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Speaker 1: about the coming ice age. Robert, Welcome back, my friend.

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Speaker 1: How are you under all these circumstances. I'm doing very well, George,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I understand you have moved on.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you move to? I have? You know? I used

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Speaker 1: to live in a Seattle area all these years, and

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Speaker 1: I just kept thinking, you know, if I'm telling people

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Speaker 1: that an ice age is coming, then what in the

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Speaker 1: devil am I doing staying here? So last year I

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Speaker 1: moved south. I moved to Texas and moved to a

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Speaker 1: part of Texas. You know, during the last ice age,

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Speaker 1: certainly not all of the world was covered with ice,

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Speaker 1: that's true, And so I'm in an area that I

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Speaker 1: think is going to work out just fine. Plus it's

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Speaker 1: a right now with all of the political stuff going on,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad I'm out of the Seattle area

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Speaker 1: for that reason too. You and i've been talking about

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Speaker 1: this for at least seventeen eighteen years now, have you

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Speaker 1: changed your thoughts at all? Are we in this ice age? No?

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Speaker 1: You know I we talked way back when you were

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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. That's right, and my night talk show.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, there are several astrophysicists. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're following me, but that would be crazy,

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Speaker 1: But there are several astrophysicists who say that we are

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Speaker 1: in a little ice age at the very beginning of

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Speaker 1: a little ice age right now. Well you believe that too, though,

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Speaker 1: don't you. Well? I do, Yeah. I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: already started. It's just that it takes a while for

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Speaker 1: it to gear up so that people understand what's happening. Well.

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Speaker 1: Correct the confusion too for Robert, because in ice ages

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Speaker 1: you do get very warm summers. Correct, you can get

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Speaker 1: warm summers. The main thing that I see with the

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Speaker 1: entry at least to an ice age, especially a little

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Speaker 1: ice age, is that you have the rainy season last

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer in the spring, and then you

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Speaker 1: have the rainy season start a little bit earlier in

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Speaker 1: the fall, and it doesn't take very many weeks earlier

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Speaker 1: on each end of that to mess with your food supplies.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the biggest concern I have with entering

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Speaker 1: a little ice age. Why do you believe we are

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Speaker 1: headed this way? Well, because of some of the things

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing. Well right now, I just let me just

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, we had surprised winter

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Speaker 1: storm dropped seventeen inches of snow in Wyoming. That was

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Speaker 1: on September eleventh. Kansas City smashes cold records set more

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Speaker 1: than one hundred years ago. That was on September eleventh,

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Speaker 1: and then they did that they smashed the cold record

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Speaker 1: two days in a row. Denver had the earliest freeze

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Speaker 1: on record going back more than one hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 1: That was on September tenth. New record lows in Minnesota

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Speaker 1: on September tenth. Cold is high in Texas. Now it

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Speaker 1: was cold where I was, but in Midland, Texas, the

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Speaker 1: coldest high was fourteen degrees lower than it ever had

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Speaker 1: been before on record that was September ninth. I mean

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Speaker 1: the list goes on winter snow blankets parts of Alberta

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Speaker 1: on September ninth, record cold record snow fallen South Dakota

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Speaker 1: September ninth. So it's happening right now. It's just the

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Speaker 1: people because it's happening in various areas and not in

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Speaker 1: the entire world. By we kind of laugh it off

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, well, you know, that's just that's that's

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Speaker 1: just there. But I see that happening more and more,

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Speaker 1: both in the fall and in the spring. So but

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Speaker 1: the other part, as I said, there's there's many astrophysicists. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're joining your team, aren't they. They are you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't mean to be joining my team. But at

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Speaker 1: least I was saying it first. And now this is

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Speaker 1: really feeling pretty all. I shouldn't say it's feeling good,

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Speaker 1: but it at least verifies what I've been saying. Did

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Speaker 1: the last ice age end about eleven thousand, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: years ago? It did? It did, And there is That's

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Speaker 1: part of the reason that I've concerned. Because there is

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Speaker 1: a cycle ice ages. There's also a cycle to magnetic reversals. Now,

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Speaker 1: is the ice age based on the sun or magnetic reversals? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's both. I think it's both. Any missing

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Speaker 1: many ice age, which I think that we're heading into

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Speaker 1: right now, would be based on the Sun because because

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Speaker 1: of the low sunspot count, there's a huge you know

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Speaker 1: if you ask me about that later. But it has

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Speaker 1: to do with the sunspots. But there's also my concern

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Speaker 1: about a magnetic reversal because our magnetic field strength is

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Speaker 1: declining rapidly and I think that I think we're headed

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Speaker 1: for another magnetic reversal too. But magnetic reversals, there is

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Speaker 1: a cycle to magnetic reversals, or at least magnetic excursions

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Speaker 1: that return almost like clockwork, every eleven about every eleven thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred years, and those magnetic reversals correlate with periods

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Speaker 1: of glaciation. Now, when you talk about a mini ice age, though, Robert,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean exactly? What's what's a mini ice

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Speaker 1: age as opposed to the ice age. We had a

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Speaker 1: mini ice age essentially in the sixteen hundreds. It was

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Speaker 1: a time a lot of people have never even heard

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Speaker 1: of sun spots, but it was a time where there

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Speaker 1: were no sun spots on the sun for about eighty years,

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Speaker 1: and the temperatures declined and ice started started crawling out

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Speaker 1: of the Alps. People know that because there were farmers

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Speaker 1: that applied for reduced taxes because their pastures were covered

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Speaker 1: with ice. But during the Little Ice Age, which was

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Speaker 1: about the sixteen hundreds and around that time, the earth

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Speaker 1: didn't cool that much more, but it cooled enough that

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Speaker 1: that crops were lost in the fields because because farmers

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Speaker 1: couldn't really get their horses out into the field, and

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Speaker 1: they couldn't plant because it was too muddy. And then

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Speaker 1: come the fall that they couldn't harvest because it was

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Speaker 1: it was too wet, and literally millions and I do

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Speaker 1: mean millions of people died of starvation. I bet I

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Speaker 1: fear that we could be looking at another such thing.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a mini ice age. The whole world didn't

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Speaker 1: get covered by ice at all, but the weather was

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Speaker 1: really miserable. In fact, I have a thing right at

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Speaker 1: the top of my website or close to it burning

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Speaker 1: climate skeptics at the stake is during that period, you know,

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Speaker 1: they were blaming humans for the bad weather, just the

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Speaker 1: same as they do now. You know, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it has anything to do with humans. I think it

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Speaker 1: all has to do with cycles. But anyway, there were

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Speaker 1: so many crop losses in Europe and really around the world.

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Speaker 1: But in Europe they figured that around fifty thousand people

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Speaker 1: were burned the steak. They were called witches because it

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Speaker 1: was their fault because of the weather. And I hate

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Speaker 1: to see us doing that again, blaming humans of the weather.

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Speaker 1: They found a wooly mammoth in Siberia that had been

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Speaker 1: frozen to death instantly. It still had food in its mouth.

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Speaker 1: How fast do the temperatures plummet during an ice age, Well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of scientists have said

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Speaker 1: that ice ages begin slowly over you know, was just

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Speaker 1: a gradual plummeting thousands of years. But there was a

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Speaker 1: project called GRIP Greenland Ice Core Project way back in

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Speaker 1: the I think early nineties. But what they did is

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Speaker 1: they drilled cores into the ice in central Greenland that

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Speaker 1: they went down deep knife I think almost two miles

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Speaker 1: deep where they were able to look at ice that

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Speaker 1: had accumulated during the last two hundred and fifty thousand years,

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Speaker 1: and they discovered that every single ice age, I mean

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Speaker 1: every single one of them began in less than twenty years,

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Speaker 1: and they did that from climates as warm as today,

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Speaker 1: and then boom, twenty years later, they're in an ice age.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it can, It can happen fast. What happens.

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