Some people have asked why did I bother to follow weather? I became a partner in a firm called Strategic Weather to do long-term forecasting, which today is Planalytics which is geared to forecasting weather for business. The database on weather was put together and formed one of the largest in the country. Weather has played a key role in migrations and the rise and fall of nations. I have warned that we are entering a period which is summed up best as – the Age of Whatever Can Go Wrong – Will Go Wrong.

From a weather perspective, our long-term models at PEI project that we are heading into a mini ice age – not global warming, and it has nothing to do with emissions. This is a natural cycle whereby the energy output of the sun collapses. This week, temperatures plummeted in Hong Kong. They were even talking about snow, which I am not sure anyone has ever seen in my lifetime. This is the Maunder Minimum & the Coming Mini Ice Age. It is blistering cold right now in New Jersey. We have to comprehend that this is like a crash of the stock market from a 1929 high. It will be rapid and by no means gradual. By the time we look back at this in a few years, we will be willing to pay taxes for global warming to heat things up again.