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- 1. TRIPLE TSUNAMI MANAGING ADVERSITY AND BEYOND PART 1 THE DYNAMICS WILLIAM HOUSTON WWW.TSUNAMICCC.COM
- 2. MANAGING ADVERSITY PART 1 THE DYNAMICS AGENDA • THE CLIMATIC CYCLES AND THEIR IMPACT ON GLOBAL POLITICS. • THE IMPORTANCE OF OCEAN CYCLES. • LONG-TERM ECONOMIC CYCLES. • DEBT AND ITS DESTRUCTION. • THE CYCLES OF CONFLICT. • THE PROBLEMS WITH ENERGY. • GROUP WORK.
- 3. THE 178.8-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE Thought to be generated by out-of-balance movements within the solar system affecting sun’s output and volcanic action Four distinctive periods in the last millennium of economic, social and political turmoil. Cycle #24 likely start of a minimum due in early decades of 21st Century and related seismic activity already with us.
- 5. WOLF MINIMUM - Early 14th century European famine in 1317/8 caused malnutrition that weakened immune systems prior to Black Death. Civil wars in Britain and devastation on the continent – Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror. Beneficial effect - emancipation of English serfs.
- 6. SPOROR MINIMUM – Around 1500 Critical period, discoveries, civil wars, innovations, famines and raging inflation from Spanish gold. Formation of House of Tudor after Wars of the Roses, then to Elizabethan order. Reformation – individuals emancipated from the church. Innovation: printing press that drove Italian Renaissance and Reformation. Constantinople falls to Ottomans. Emergence of the Elizabethan Age.
- 7. MAUNDER MINIMUM - 17TH century Unusually cool for around 100 years, Thames regularly frozen. Period of civil wars, famines, assassinations and rebellions around northern hemisphere. Creation of English Constitution, union with Scotland and development of Cape Cod and SA Cape colonies.
- 8. DALTON/SABINE MINIMUM - Late 18TH century Napoleonic Wars fought during this period, Russia unusually cool. 1812 Anglo v American War – solved nothing. Set off Tambora, the biggest eruption for centuries. Waterloo set the stage for sixty-year peace in Europe.
- 9. THE PRESENT Minimum sunspots and high seismic activity matching conditions similar to previous minima. If the present resembles the past we can expect at least 25- years of a cooler climate, high food prices, civil disturbances rising to revolutions. Monitor sunspots and seismicity.
- 10. PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION ● PDO ~ 50 year cycle where the average Pacific surface temperature (plotted since 1900) rises and falls in a predictable pattern. ● Positive phases drive rain belts to the east and north in beneficial El Niňo phase. ● Present negative phase since 2000 of PDO is to drive rain belts south and west during La Niňa to cause major problems with crop yields. Will last until around 2025.
- 12. ATLANTIC MITIDECADAL OSCILLATION AMO - A 70 year cycle where the average Atlantic surface temperature (plotted since 1895) rises and falls in a predictable pattern. Main impact of positive AMO from 1995 is to drive rain belts north in the Northern Hemisphere to leave north Mediterranean, Middle East and SE of the US unusually dry – contributory cause of riots in MENA. Return to negative AMO c 2030.
- 13. ARCTIC OSCILLATION When positive, winds flow around Arctic Circle. When negative, winds flow south. In 2010/1 warm Atlantic – low pressure. Cold Arctic from Kamchatka, and other volcanoes Grimsvőten (Iceland) and Cheveluch (Kamchatka) create high pressure systems. Icy winds flow south into great continents; will ensure another early autumn and cold winter for around another 15 years.
- 14. PRESENT OSCILLATIONS The present confluence of a negative PDO and positive AMO represents a dangerous combination of difficult growing conditions in north and east Mediterranean, the Great Plans and SE of the US, China and Central Asia. There will also be flooding in SE Asia. Coupled with a new minimum and positive AMO, cold winter likely in Northern Hemisphere Browning Newsletter provides monthly reports on the three Oscillations and their impact.
- 15. PRIMARY IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CYCLES Historically, the main cycles could not have come at a more difficult time associated with the economic downturn. Their primary impact is likely to be on water availability and food yields with associated political unrest in MENA. Unfortunately this is likely to spread to highly populated areas. We can expect: A rapid rise in food price which, associated with the economic downturn, leads to stagflation. Continuing civil unrest from food shortages. Civil disturbances up to revolutions.
- 16. ECONOMIC CYCLES KONDRATIEFF CYCLE – 50 to 70-year cycle of boom and bust. Associated debt/GDP cycle. JUGLAR CYCLE – 8-11 year cycle, also the business cycle – see Part 4.
- 18. KONDRATIEFF LONG-WAVE Biblical Jubilee Cycle of fifty years – Leviticus 25. Kondratieff’s work of 1928 used pig iron, textile, food prices and interest rates going back to 1780 to derive a pattern of around 45 to 60 years of boom and bust. He, almost alone, predicted the Great Depression. Pattern shown in diagram shows present downwave/winter started in around 2000 and bottoms when debt cycle exhausted c 2020.
- 20. DEBT/GDP CYCLE IN US K2 cycle peaked in 1875 at 156.4%, then fell. K3 cycle in 1929 was 195%, peaked at 300% as GDP declined 50% from 1928 to 1932 when ratio 200%; loss of debt c $100bn – 10% less than GDP in 1929. K3 ended in 1950 when ratio 130% DEBT DESTRUCTION BEFORE RECOVERY K4 now at c 400% but nearer 800% when off balance- sheet items added. Potential loss of debt ratio to 200% - >$30 tr haircut?
- 21. THE CREDIT CYCLE - MOST REMEDIES FAIL The slight decline in the debt/GDP ratio is due to mortgage delinquencies and deleveraging. This has been more than compensated by the rise in federal and state debt and unfunded liabilities. If the present resembles the past, there will need to be a debt liquidation in the US approaching twice the GDP of around $30 tr – probably through hyperinflation - before recovery possible. This would end global fiat money. Watch for signs of weakening currencies through further QE and decline in GDP.
- 22. CYCLES OF CONFLICT There have been many insurrections over water when starving crowds have rampaged. This could happen again: o Peak of 178.8-year climatic cycle has generated civil wars and revolutions; Cycle #24/5 likely to herald another minimum. o La Niňa’s have caused water wars. o Winters of Kondratieff have been related to civil wars and internal strife. Conclusion – Likely riots, civil disobedience up to civil wars and revolutions: wars over water.
- 23. SECULAR ENERGY BALANCE There is rising evidence that the main fields have reached ‘peak oil’ and now are declining and those coming on stream are progressively being unable to meet rising global demand except at high costs. Other factors: Climatic shifts are impacting on demand. Drought areas unable to continue high hydro power. Coal for power generation and conversion to oil to fill the gaps, as will LNG. Shale oil and gas expensive to drill but abundant in U.S. Major shift in government spending away from transfer payments to research into cold fusion.
- 24. GROUP DISCUSSION OVER DYNAMICS It would be very useful to hear how different nations – or areas within states – have dealt with adversity. The agenda might include: Discussion of other inputs we should be aware of. Prognosis for the US, Europe, the Middle and Far East. What could be done to mitigate impact of dynamics. Possibility of new political and economic alignments.