A series of volcanic eruptions occurred in Scandinavia between the years 536 and 537 CE. The surrounding agricultural area was ecologically sensitive with low resilience. Approximately half the population on the Scandinavian Peninsula vanished. A fog covered much of Earth for eighteen months. It took a century for things to return to normal. Three hundred years later, someone carved a warning in Viking runes predicting climate change would happen again.
What’s Behind the Viking Runes Predicting Climate Warming?
Three hundred years after those volcanic eruptions, Viking warrior Varin’s son died in battle. Solar phenomena followed triggering fear in his father’s heart that climate crisis would return. The rune lettering on an eight-foot-high rune stone speaks of a solar eclipse shortly before the battle, followed by a solar storm that turned the sky red.
The winter that followed was exceptionally cold. Varin chiseled out a warning in Viking runes predicting climate change would return. Is this folklore or did these things happen, do you think? Predictions don’t cause events. We usually only hear of them after they come true. One thing is for sure. That is we are entering a climate crisis if we believe this short video
Climate Change Could Cause Financial Meltdown (New York Times)
Jack Ewing wrote a though piece in The New York Times on January 23, 2020. In it he said the world’s central banks agree climate change could cause another financial crisis. However, this time they don’t have the tools to deal with what could be ‘one of the biggest economic dislocations of all time’ he says.
A report by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland says climate change poses challenges without precedent. Central banks will not be immune, replies Villeroy de Galhau, Banque de France governor.
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Preview Image: 6th- or 7th-century Björketorp Runestone
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