TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Megadrought: Western USA Entering Worst Drought in 1200 Year

Episode Date: April 26, 2021

Today on TRUNEWS, host Edward Szall looks at the increasing mainstream science reports on the coming megadrought in the Western US. With forecasters saying that they haven’t seen anything like this in 1200 years, how will this impact the food supply and migration of people? The team looks at the Biblical response to ‘climate change,’ and look at continued reports of a global cooling cycle. Edward Szall, Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate (04/26/21)

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit www, 2021. I'm Edward Zoll. Drought, famine, and wildfires. That's the outlook for the western United States, according to scientists who believe we are entering a megadrought worse than any in the last 1,200 years. This megadrought will be felt from California to East Texas and could last a century. And if their predictions are correct, permanently shift the farming and population centers of the United States and the world at large. Now megadroughts can be a dry subject, but it's an important one,

and not just for food production, but societal stability. And could this be tied to the onset of a new mini ice age? Join me to flow through this story and more, our True News founder Rick Walls and Doc Burkhart. Hello, Edward. Edward, good to see you. Edward, I think I started talking about this mega drought maybe eight to ten years ago when the first scientific report started to indicate that the USA, the western United States, was going into such a drought. We haven't touched this subject here on True News for a number of years. But we are now, as we're in the decade of the 2020s, we're now in that drought.

And what we're going to show our audience today, I think, is going to be very stunning. I mentioned this about two weeks ago. I mentioned a drought. And I said, if you're in the Western United States, you should be praying about leaving, moving, relocating. And of course, that set off a lot of emails. And people say, what are you talking about? Where am I supposed to go? Why would I leave? And so we're responding to those messages that we received two weeks ago. I never went back and answered those directly. And so that's why we're devoting today's program to our audience that's living in the western United States. Yes.

Who are wondering, what are you talking about? Why would I pack up and leave? Hopefully you're going to see today the scientific information that should cause every person in the Western United States to seriously ponder whether he or she should remain there. Now, you may decide you're going to ride it out, but it's going to be a dry ride. And I mean, if it lasts, the minimum is two decades.

The worst case scenario is a century. Or more. Or more. Some of them are forecasting. The worst case scenario is a century. Or more. Or more. Some of them are forecasting. Yeah. Well, and as we're going to lay out here, it's not just the drought that you should be worried about.

It's the side effects of the drought, whether it be civil unrest or just simply going to get food in the area you're at. Or drinking water. Drinking water. It's going to change communities, communities that have already been ravaged by many other factors. If you're a farmer, you may be cut off of water because many farms and ranches in the West depend on water that is transported from other regions. Yes. Reservoirs and rivers. And so the state and federal government agencies in some regions are already starting to make the decisions to either cut off the flow of water or divert the flow of water to other regions.

So you will be impacted. These scientists are saying that this is this is the worst drought in the western United States for 1,200 years. Now, there's been a lot of droughts over 1,200 years. But they're saying this is the worst one in 1,200 years. That's why we're presenting this information. We're not talking about a dry spell. No, this is drought in the sense of extended periods with little to no rainfall. We're talking skeletons. Right. Okay, we're talking about climate conditions that

produce death in a region, and that's why it's very serious. CBS News, they just published a story, Western U.S. may be entering the most severe drought in modern history. Well, it's beyond modern history. We're going back 1,200 years. And look at this map. You're talking Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming. It actually includes a big chunk of Montana.

I think I said Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. So this is extreme. And it's interesting to note that when we first started talking, we've been talking about the 1,200-year drought months ago. And then a couple weeks ago, Rick mentioned it on the Godcast. And then within the past two weeks, we've just seen an explosion of articles and reports about the drought, as if they're finally waking up to the fact that there is a big drought coming. Well, in these areas you just mentioned, Rick, that encompasses about 55 million people's

homes. Fifty-five million people live in that, of the most extreme to the exceptionally dry. And what's important is you think back 1,200 years, that area wasn't inhabited by millions. If anything, it had Indian tribes there, but some areas were not livable. What made them livable was man-made lakes, was collection of water.

Without water, civilization cannot exist. The West is dry in normal times. It's dry. Yes. But to be extremely dry, we're talking where it takes decades or 100 years for water to be reclaimed. And we're not just talking about surface water. We're talking about the aquifers under the ground, which have been substantially reduced as well. You touched on those droughts in the past. So they're blaming today's drought on global warming

that is caused by man. So were those previous droughts caused by cars, coal plants and hairspray cans back then? Of course they weren't. Nope, they're cycles. Yes. There's been climate change as long as there's been an earth.

The climate changes. There's nothing radical about that. I'm not a climate denier. How can you deny the climate? Right. What the extreme left is are cycle deniers. Yes. There are cycles.

Nothing crazy about it. Nothing bizarre or extreme. It's just a cycle. There's cycles in the climate. And the climate and weather are two different things. Yes. But the climate changes. It's been changing since Noah's flood.

We had uniform climate on the planet up until the flood. After the flood, the climate's never been the same. Right. After that, we had seed time and harvest. Seed time and harvest depends upon seasonal changes within the earth. We've had seasonal changes since the time of the flood. And it's going to continue until there's no more earth. And there will be no need for that after that point.

But the Bible does declare in Genesis that after the flood, there was that cycle of seed time and harvest. That's right. And the Bible also declares and we're going to talk about later in today's program. The Bible also declares that God sends droughts. Yeah. And I believe God sends mega droughts for mega sins, too. So, and like you said, we'll be touching on that later in the Godcast today. Edward, some of the story that we were looking at here today, I mean, we could take the next hour and just show you local news reports from around the country

talking about local drought conditions. I mean, there are hundreds of stories out there. Here's one from the Press Democrat in California. There's just no water to waste. Sonoma and Mendocino counties brace for renewed restrictions as drought deepens. This is a typical news story. It's in the western United States now. Those of us who are in the east and the south,

we're not reading these kinds of news stories in our local papers because we're not experiencing drought. The drought is restricted to the western United States. And if you're in California or any of the other western states, you're already seeing the stories. What you probably don't know is it's not confined to just your area. Right. Your county, your state. It's across the to just your area. Right. Your county, your state. It's across the entire region.

Right. The entire western basin, as we would call it. And so one story that was in Modern Farmer that we saw here just a few days ago, mega drought in American West may trigger first ever water shortage declaration. The water levels are getting so low in places like Lake Mead and others that these are about ready to trigger substantial warnings and restrictions of usage of water, not just in a small area, but across entire regions. And they're days away from it.

And some counties out in the West are already declaring drought emergencies this early in the year. Look at that photo. That is Lake Mead in Nevada. I don't know if you've ever been to Lake Mead. I haven't, but I read up on Lake Mead today and specifically on the rights to Lake Mead. Now, obviously, this connects Arizona and Nevada, but it turns out Arizona and Nevada don't actually have first rights to the water which comes from Lake Mead. I think it's a ridiculous thing to say. The lake that literally makes Las Vegas function. Without Lake Mead, Las Vegas can't exist.

They don't have first rights to it. No, they don't. Who gets the first rights to the water? California. Yes. So that photograph of Lake Mead, I have visited Lake Mead numerous times over 30 years, about 30, 35 years. Business trips. Usually when I'd take a business trip to Vegas, I'd always go out to Lake Mead.

I don't like being in Vegas. There for business, I want to go see the countryside. So Lake Mead, Hoover Dam. Sometimes I'd drive up to Utah, to the national parks there, you know. It's a beautiful area. But I have seen with my own eyes, I've watched the water table dropping. Yes.

Consistently over the years. And the numbers show that, too. The rainfall is not replenishing that man-made lake. That's right. Well, and it's the Colorado River, you know, which is obviously drying up. But anybody who's, if you've lived in the area or you have consistently visited Nevada and driven over to Lake Mead, you know that over the past 20 years, there's been a steady drop in the water table. It's now reached, it is the lowest it's ever been, ever. And they are going to have to implement water restrictions very soon because California is

getting the water. California is running out of water. And ironically, they're forecasting that the levels will drop down to even more historic lows. If it drops down below 1,075 feet, they start kicking in water restrictions, not for California, but for Arizona and Nevada. They get the first restrictions. But if it continues to drop, which it's still forecast to do so before, I believe it's 1,048 feet, that at that point,

that's when the California restrictions kick in. And to give you some example, at one time Lake Mead was running 1,350. It's lost a lot of water. It's down to just over 1,000 feet right now. Yes. By the way, they filmed the first Planet of the Apes movie out there. Oh they did? Yes, that's okay. One of the tidbits of that area. From time to time you will see

rainfall in the West. Don't be deceived into thinking, oh, the drought's over. It rained. That's the end of the drought. AccuWeather points out rainfall is a Band-Aid in the West right now. It's just a Band-Aid. You're going to have occasional rain. Even during an extreme drought, you'll have occasional rain. Sure. But that doesn't eliminate the drought.

And a big example of this is even the coastline. San Francisco only received 37% of average rainfall this past year. You'd think inland, places like Albuquerque, New Mexico and Las Vegas, they are obviously the most hit. Las Vegas with 29% of the rain, Albuquerque with 32%. But the reason I'm bringing San Francisco up, San Francisco did not take measures to build desalination plants. Not that that's a cheap or efficient way to produce drinkable and potable water. No one's ready to produce water right now, other than getting it from rain or shipped in from places like Nevada.

Right. And if you're on the Pacific coast and you're going to desalinate the water, you're also going to have to denuclearize it. Denuclearize it. Okay. Because Japan is, folks, do you realize that Japan is still dumping radioactive wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. It's never stopped. You would think the Japanese would learn after all the Godzilla movies that that's a bad idea.

Yes. But they haven't learned that. But it impacts us directly. But you would think the environmentalists would be screaming. Right. That disaster was 2011. This is 10 years. They've been dumping radioactive water, massive amounts of water into the Pacific. So, you know, in desalinization, I don't know how you remove isotopes from the water. is becoming a political tender box because it's pitting regions of the state against each other.

It's pitting groups of citizens against other groups of citizens. If the state cuts off water to divert it to a city. You're depriving one group. Or to farmers. Yes, for example, one group, I mean, the salmon will die. Yes, right. You have tens of thousands of salmon that will die. So there's already a lot of political tension in the Klamath Basin region of Oregon over

who gets the water. So much so that the farmers opened the irrigation channels back up. And this isn't the first time they've done that. They've done it in the past. But this is putting the Bureau of Reclamation. Imagine we have a whole bureau, Rick, devoted just to reclaiming water in the West. That's put the Bureau of Reclamation against the farmers because they maintain that they need the water for the farms and everything.

Then you have those, including environmentalists, that say the flows of water need to go a different direction because if you don't let the water go a different direction, it could cause certain endangered species to die out. And so it shows you where the balance is between the two. And so I think that's a great point. the water go a different direction, it could cause certain endangered species to die out. And so it shows you where the balance is between the two and why this fight is just beginning. And it's going to get more intense as we go further, too.

Well, in that article, and you mentioned endangered species, Doc, humans might become that endangered species in that region if they don't start taking action that is best for the communities that live there. Obviously, no one's going to agree on this. And I think the direction it's going, according to a quote from that article, is that people with the sound mind and common sense will be leaving that area. Others are going to begin fighting about a resource that is becoming more endangered. Well, a quote from that article was, Last week, Reclamation announced one of the lowest water delivery allocations in the history of the Klamath Project.

It rattled farmers who use the water to irrigate about 230,000 acres of cropland. Layered on that are two endangered species programs that require water for conservation, one for a sucker fish in a lake from which farmers pull water, and another that requires regulators to send water downriver for threatened salmon and to meet tribal obligations. I quoted a man in the article, Dan Kepin of Family Farm Alliance. He said they might come to loggerheads

soon. It's the same thing that happened in 2001. Now, 2001, Doc, is when the Spigot was reopened. That was under the Bush administration. This is much different now. This has been out 20 years in the making, and the tensions are gonna boil over without federal regulations in place. Yeah, and Vox.com published a story,

and they showed a time lapse of how the mega drought will take a toll on the West's largest reservoir. And so we're showing a time lapse of the reduction in water of Lake Mead here and it's amazing when you look at the time lapse here so it's starting I believe in the early 90s and going to 2020 here it really is a big difference there I mean mean, so starting at 84, I gather, and going all the way to 2020 here. Is there any, is it 84? No, maybe, maybe 1980 is the first time I visited Lake Mead. So that's what I'm talking about. Over those decades, I have witnessed with my own eyeballs that time-lapse video. And it is stunning. It's sad to go out there now and see how constricted,

how depleted Lake Mead is. This Vox article is the one that laid out the pecking order we were just speaking about. It said, based on the pecking order from past negotiations, each of these states had to negotiate for their access to the Lake Mead Basin, among the other lakes we've described here, especially in California. It said Arizona will have the biggest reductions in allocation from Lake Mead, while California won't face restrictions until the reservoir drops below 1,045 feet.

And they agree, dictate that Arizona will have one-third of its water supply from the reservoir cut. One-third. 30% of the water. Ian James for Arizona Central said that the farmers will be among the most impacted. Now, the state has a drought plan. They'll be allowed to use groundwater, but this is not going to compensate for all the farmers' needs. At some point, the groundwater dries up. Yes.

And another five years into the drought, the conditions are going to be far more worse. If the worst-case projections are true, then think about 50 years from now. What are we looking at? If your children, your grandchildren are living in the West, what conditions are they looking at? That's what I'm trying to get across to people today. You have to think generational. Most people don't think generational. They don't think one week, let alone a generation or multi-generations.

But you have to think multi-generational. You may have to make a very difficult, painful decision to do what is best for your family a generation from now. Yes. You know, I'm really glad, Doc, that my ancestors left Europe. I'm glad my ancestors left India. Right. We had to make a change. They made a decision.

They had to make a decision. My ancestors left Europe at the time of European wars, religious persecution, and the Ice Age. All that was going on at that time. So my ancestors said, we've got to get out of here. It's better that we get on a ship and risk our lives going over the Atlantic in a wooden ship and arrive in a country that's undeveloped than to stay here and most likely die. Either get killed in war, die of famine, or die in a drought. They're all related to each other.

Well, they had ice age at that time, or freeze to death. Right. So those were the conditions going on in Europe at that time. So my ancestors made that decision. It was painful. They left everything behind. They left all family behind. Only a small number of the family left. I really don't know how many of my relatives, you know, actually packed up and left, but enough that I'm here. And unless you're a Native American, your family left too. Well, even Native Americans. They came from somewhere else. Right. And during the last major drought that we, that this area had back in the 1200s,

that was a major, major drought. Native Americans actually migrated from one area to another in order to find, you know, a better place to live for themselves and their family. And that's why you have all these, go out into the Arizona desert, you see all these adobe mounds and all these different places carved into the side of cliffs and everything. And you say to yourself, wow, this, you know, they built all this and then they left it. Well, the reason why it's because of a drought. That's right. So we've been talking about the United States in a drought, but droughts, climate doesn't stay within political boundary lines. Right, right.

Okay, so what about Mexico? Well, Mexico is reporting 85% of their reservoirs and lakes are in drought. Now, this is within Mexico City's boundaries. Mexico City itself is experiencing 30 years, a 30-year drought. But the problem right now in Mexico is that a lot of the crop production and even our workers come from this region. They're having to make a decision. Do I go work in California? Do I go work in the Northwest in a farm up there?

Or do I stay at home where we might have it a little bit better? We're still under a drought ourselves. This shows you it goes into Central and South America. That's right. It's affecting a big portion of the Western Hemisphere. We mentioned earlier that God sends droughts. Yes. And that doesn't fit well with the happy prosperity doctrine that a lot of comfortable American church members have today. But it's biblical. And and God uses droughts to.

To push rebellious, sinful people in a direction to make a decision. It's not to crush them It's not to destroy them. It is to bring them to their knees and repentance. Yes And so doctor I know you prepared for two scriptures here today, right? well one that is a lot of times quoted but they don't quote the whole passage that comes from is from Second Chronicles, chapter seven. And a lot of people read the second half of this, but they don't read the first half. And it reads, if I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people. It sounds like the news today, doesn't it, Rick? If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,

then I'll hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Can man impact climate? Yes, he can impact climate, but it's not by using hairspray, driving cars, running coal plants. It's the sin in his life. Man's sin can impact God's choice on how climate is activated. Let's put Chronicles 17 back up. Yes. So let's put that verse back up there, guys. Look at what Almighty God says. If I, if I, Almighty God, if I, creator of the universe. Yes.

If I, the maker of mankind. If God shuts up heaven, that there be no rain. That's a drought. Yes. Or if I, God, almighty God, the maker of humanity, the creator of the universe, if he commands the locusts to devour the land, eat the crops. Yes. Or if he sends pestilence, plagues, coronavirus, plagues, bu Bubonic plague.

If he sends pestilence among whose people? His people. My people. The religious people. He's not even sending them to the heathen. He's sending them to the people who call him by his name. Yes. If His people, the religious people, called by His name,

humble themselves and pray and seek the face of God, and if God's religious people turn from their wicked ways, that's when He will hear from heaven. That's when He will forgive their sin. That's when he will forgive their sin. That's when he will heal their land. And how does he heal the land? He stops the plague. He removes the locusts and he opens the clouds to send the rain and he heals the land. But it doesn't happen until the people, the religious people, who call themselves by God's name,

until they stop sinning and turn from their wicked ways. Doesn't say one thing about the LGBT people. Doesn't say one thing about drunkards, about prostitutes. Doesn't say anything. It says church people. My people. I've never seen that before. That's incredible.

Because it means, again, that an area experiencing drought or locusts or any form of pestilence, you might be able to attribute that to then the people in the area who are Christians not living righteously. Yes. That's an incredible responsibility. That's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it says. That's precisely what it says.

If you want it to rain in the West, the churches need to have revival. Wow. They won't have revival until they repent of their wicked ways. And then they cry out to God in prayer. Yeah. Sinners don't need to, you know know the wicked don't need to repent they're it's his people that need to do it well they need to repent leave on the name of jesus but but god is precipitating this passage of scripture he's putting it all on his people absolutely not blaming pagans he's not blaming pagans. He's not blaming, you know, who religious people call

wicked sinners. No, he's blaming the people that go to church. Yes. They go to synagogue. They call themselves at that time, the Old Testament, it was the synagogue. But you can take the same scripture and put it into the church world today and say the people that go to Christian churches, if they repent and turn from their wicked ways. Right. So how dry, how dry is it going to be in the West? And how long will it last until God's people repent? And it's just that simple. And in the dedication of the temple during Solomon's day, they tied it, the sin of the people of God with the idea that there's a drought. So in 1 Kings chapter 8, it says, when heaven, now look at this, when heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them, then hear thou in heaven, forgive the sin of Reign as an inheritance, Rick.

A blessing for the people of God. That's something we've truly taken for granted, I think. Often you don't think about when it rains, it could be the last one for months. And that's what it is right now in the West. Hey, I personally, look, I like rain. I love it. I love rain. I love rainy days. Okay. And I often say, first of all, when it rains, I thank the Lord for the rain. And I often say, Father, I want to thank you because I know that there are so many people today griping about this rain. They're complaining, they're griping, they're murmuring, they're upset because it's raining.

I want you to know, Father, I am grateful for this rain. If there's nobody else in this city that's thankful, I am. I want you to know your son is thankful. I do this because I know people gripe about the rain. Yes. They murmur and complain about the rain. It's a gift from heaven. And to emphasize that gift, often here in Florida, we get double rainbows.

Yes. Not the silly rainbow you see on some of the flags, the half rainbow. I'm talking about the rainbow God promised to his people following the flood. It is beautiful. And you should thank the Lord for rain. Believe me, you go years with no rain, you will thank the Lord for rain. And you won't care who's around and hears you you will open up and raise your hands and begin to praise god and thank him for the rain when you've gone years without rain and that's what's coming to the west it's already started it's not like it's going to start it's already started it started years ago we. We're into it, this thing. I can take you back to news articles that we reported here on True News 2015 about the drought.

It's we're now this is, you know, five, six, seven years later after these articles appeared about the drought starting. We're already into this drought. So I don't want people thinking, well, are you guys saying there's a drought coming? No, we're in it. You're in it. If you're in the West, you are in it right now. So Columbia University published a report, Climate-Driven Megadrought. That's kind of an oxymoron.

Any drought is climate-driven. Climate-driven megadrought is emerging in western us says study They said I read this Report today is fascinating report. Of course a lot of these reports, you know guys they're blaming it on I was about to say that's why they put a climb at the front of it. Yes. It's climate change It's global warming. Yes. warming. It's global warming. Yes. Okay. It's global warming.

Whatever. Yes. It's warm and it's dry. But God sends droughts. Yes. And he sends droughts because people sin. It's just that simple. End of discussion. And my job, you know, I'm not here to to argue with climate change people, you know,

the global warming people. I'm not here to argue with climate controllers. My yes, my my responsibility is to proclaim the message of the king. And the king says, your nation has sinned grievously against me, and I have cut off the rain. That's what the king says. Yes. If you don't like it, take it up with the king. He's cut off the water. You wanted the rain? Close down the abortion baby killing centers. Restore marriage to what God says it is. One man, one woman. Eliminate the pornography. Get rid of the drug abuse, the alcohol abuse.

You want it to rain? There's a long list of things you need to do and look the east isn't going to be spared we'll have our own issues to deal with God's dealing right now with the west he's dealing with the west California teaching children in first grade

about transgenderism about homosexuality in the first grade about transgenderism, about homosexuality in the first grade. Would you like a drink of water, California? You just keep doing it. You just keep poisoning the minds of little children. And we'll see how long you last. Because God has cut off your water. And he'll starve you out before he lets you destroy the minds of these children.

These people that oppose God, they laugh at him, they mock God. They're such fools. They're just fools. The maker of mankind, the creator of the universe. And they mock him. They dare him. They defy him. And they say, he's not going to do anything.

We're not afraid of him. Well, he just cut off your water. And the most foolish among them are those who are saved, the ones that should and are called to know better than this. You know there are Christian children that are going to these schools. There's Christian parents that don't see any issue with drag queens or with the education system excluding prayer. But the study you mentioned, Rick, it did something interesting.

Often these studies, you have to wonder, are they going to be correct? Are they going to be able to actually predict something past their own agenda? But what they did here is they actually looked at the rings in trees, thousands of them. And what they were able to do is they compared the rings inside the tree, which counted how well that tree was doing, how well it grew that year, based on the availability of water. Now, they compared that to the soil moisture in the modern era. By doing this comparison, they actually got a very

accurate display of past droughts. They could say this tree ring actually did predict the droughts we're hearing about. Predicted if we'd seen this tree ring 100 years ago, we'd have known the droughts coming in the last 30 years. And you've got a fascinating image here of showing the four previous droughts compared to the current drought. Let's go ahead and put that image up. This is number 14.

And so in the middle there, you have the drought cycle. So the dips that you see going down. That's from the year 800. Right. So you start the year 800 all the way to the year 2000. So you had droughts around the late 800s and late 1100s, late 1200s, late 1500s. And then we had a long period there. And now at the very end on the right, you have the 2000s here. But what was really fascinating were the images below there, Rick. And if you look at the comparison of these previous droughts, look how much drier over a wider region things are in the early 2000s.

And that's why there should be some great deal of concern here because based just upon tree rings, okay? They're forecasting that this drought could be one that could last 100 or more years and impact a wider region going all the way from Canada, of course, extending all the way down through Mexico as far east as East Texas. And so... A number of these studies that I read today, Doc, scientists cited the drought that was in the 1100s. And they said this is right now the one that looks most similar to the drought that's in the West in the 2020s. Well, thankfully, it's not the one in the 1500s. You see, according to the analysis, they said that was extreme, the worst it could possibly be. But still, if you look at the number three there, that is what they're comparing it to. And in the article, they said they used many rings from thousands of trees.

This isn't just one tree. And they've been able to chart the droughts that you see on the screen across the region starting in 800 AD. Now, they said the four standouts are called the megadroughts. That's what we're talking about in this program today, the mega droughts. There were the 800s, the mid-1100s, the 1200s, and the late 1500s. Now, after the 1600s, there were other droughts, but not on this scale, which means we've had a reprieve almost. There have been droughts, many droughts in the West, and that also is added to forest fires. You're not paying attention to droughts, many droughts in the West, and that also has added to forest fires.

You're not paying attention to droughts. You've certainly been paying attention to the forest fires in California. But it was this comparison of Seoul that pushed out that the 1200s actually ended the Indian occupation of that area. The Pueblos, a tribe of the Pueblos, disappeared. An entire civilization moved on or went extinct overnight. That's right. Doc was mentioning earlier about the pueblos. They lived in the caves, in the cliffs of the rock. And they invented condos.

You go out to the west, you see rows and rows and rows of condos in the rocks. But they're just gone. The people disappeared. Where did they go? And what's really fascinating about the Pueblos, Rick, is that they left in a hurry. I remember studying this as a kid and then looked at it again later in life, that when they did research into the Pueblo Indians

and where they were living, there were still coals, you know, not hot, warm coals, of course, but coals on the fire, vases that still had food remaining in them, things like that, as if they all left in a hurry, as if something radically changed really fast. And you know what? We've heard different stories along that line as it relates to cooling cycles, that when cooling cycles click in, which are coordinated with droughts, by the way, not with warming. Warming tends to produce precipitation around the world. Global cooling is what precipitates droughts. And we've heard other stories that when it got cold, it got cold fast. You can have dry and cold at the same time.

Yes. People think it's got to be hot. You can have dry and cold at the same time. And it does. Ice ages appear to just start suddenly. Like someone just turned on a switch. Yeah. So.

And that may explain what happened to the Pueblo people, but they just disappeared. They had to migrate. They had to go somewhere. Related to today, that Columbia University study found that usually it's about 19 years how long these droughts will last, especially a mega drought. So if it is beginning and has begun, let's say it began in 2020 or before that, you're looking at it lasting until the 2040s possibly. But they can go 100 years. Yes.

Okay. That's the best case scenario what we just laid out. So you can have an extremely severe drought that lasts 20 years. And the severity referring to the lack of water. But you can also have a very prolonged drought that may not be as severe as that 20-year drought, but it's five times longer. And it's stretched out over 100 years. A lot of these scientists believe that what we're in right now is a 100-year drought.

And that's what people should be concerned about. Because as we're going to show here in a minute, I've been convinced for about 10 years that we're going into an ice age. Some people believe it's already started. The planet itself, we've entered the ice age. People are expecting to see a woolly mammoth walking around. That's the sign, the evidence. No, it's not that way.

It's subtle for a period of time, and then it's sudden. Right. Just shifts over quickly. Yeah. And that could be what we're witnessing right now. Physics Today had a story about pre-Columbian America. And this is referring to the Native American, the indigenous tribes that disappeared. So as you can see here, Los Angeles, modern day Los Angeles, known as one of the biggest cities in the United States,

between 1264 and 1294, they had their own mega drought. And this is, again, a period of land that we're going to see the same kind of drought in this area. That area alone, 20 million people live in vicinity there, to include Las Vegas in the parts red, the parts that are gray considered to be the drought they had in just the 800s. There was no one living out there. But the point here is that the scientists are seeing this. And this is an article from 2018. Scientists in 2018 were raising the alarm about this, yet it hasn't been part of the discourse.

But what would man's reaction be to it anyway? God already said what the reaction should be. Man's reaction was, let's seed clouds. Yeah, we got another quote from the Columbia University, the headline of persistent drought in North America. And this is the study about this current mega drought. And then, Edward, I'll let you go with the quote from this. Yes. You see on the screen, that's actually from the Dust Bowl. And the article noted that going further back in time, there is evidence of frequent and extensive droughts in the 19th century, including dune activation at time of European exploration of the West and earlier in the millennium, and a mega

drought in the late 16th century. These droughts still lasted decades and with precipitation reductions comparable to those experienced in the last century. However, there is tantalizing evidence of a regime shift around 1300, with the period from 800 to 1300 being substantially and continually drier than the period after. Curiously enough, this coincides with the medieval warm period and is suggestive of a reorganization of the global climate somewhere around the 1300s. Now this is the kicker right here, and a transition into the Little Ice Age. There it is. The transition into the Little

Ice Age. That's where we're at right now. We're transitioning into a new Little Ice Age. And once again, depending on the scientists that you want to believe, who are on record saying that we're in an ice age, best case scenario, 40 years. Worst case scenario, the Russians, they say 200 years. 100 years of temperatures dropping. Think about it.

Temperatures dropping consistently for 100 years. You don't get to, you know, until you get, you don't hit the bottom for 100 years. And then there's a 100 year climbing out of that hole. That's what the Russians are expecting. Right. Others are saying 40 years, some 70, a monder minimum. It could be a monder minimum experience.

But let's just say 10 years. I mean, let's go on the low side. Let's just say it's just a short drought of 10 years. You've devastated the economy of a third to half of the nation. I'm talking about ice age. Yes. All right, but yeah, with a drought, so you're eliminating food production.

You've disrupted major cities, urban areas in the West. And what do you do with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, all the cities along the coast? What do you do with them? Where do the people go? Where do they get the water? Look, this will shut down Silicon Valley, which may explain why big tech in America is moving to Israel. Because Silicon Valley is drying up. That may explain why they are building their new facilities in the state of Israel.

Right, because it's not just their headquarters, but the server farms in the West. I mean, the Internet, much of the Internet is run out of California, out of Utah, areas that are going to experience severe drought. And mind you, those server farms require water to cool the servers. So you're not going to be able to have YouTube without somewhere that has the backend. That's a good point. Very good point. So while we're talking about the Ice Age, we thought we'd catch you up on the latest Ice Age news, because this is not a topic the establishment news media will cover. I've watched over the past five years the steady decline and almost complete disappearance of any news articles.

Well, they ridicule it. Even when NASA starts talking about the reduction in sunspot activity. You can't even find stories about sunspot activity anymore. It's gone. They've eliminated all of it. I used to see stories all the time about sunspot activity. It's gone. They've just all of it. I used to see stories all the time about about sunspot activity. It's gone They've just eliminated it because they didn't want people Researching research reading it and making decisions and coming to the conclusion. There's there's a major

Hey, they're right. There is climate change Think about that the people that talk about climate change Don't want you to know the real climate change is coming. Right. They want you to believe their narrative. They want you to focus on things that don't matter. Their narrative is we need more government power. We need a communistic financial system. We need global governance.

That's how you solve climate change. But when people discover what's really going on in the climate and that there really is change taking place. It'll be too late. But they don't want communism. They're not going to give the government more power. But yes, it'll be too late. So so the the climate change industry will not allow the public to read the real news about climate change. They're controlling the narrative and they've got people thinking and talking about fake climate change. And then if you talk about real climate change, you're called a climate denier.

Yes. The whole thing is insane. You let these people get inside your head, you'll go nuts. But it is an industry, and we've seen the impact of that when we were traveling to international conferences and everything, where they pump out the green industry line, even among tech companies, which you would think, well, what does that have to do? And doing green credits between companies and everything. Well, I think we now know, Doc, the tech companies are part of the revolution. Yes.

So, Eddie, back to the Ice Age. So The Guardian actually did an article this past month, and they actually spoke about one aspect of the Ice Age, which is a shift in the stream the Gulf Stream now one specific aspect of this that they're paying attention to is the AMOC which is the the conveyor belt for the currents coming out through the Atlantic Ocean They said of the Atlantic Ocean circulation is that its weakest in a millennium now what they're speaking about here is a historic drop between 34 to 50 to 45% of this Atlantic-Muridonial overturning circulation. There's a map of it. It is the current that main shipping vessels take to make it an efficient travel to take goods from Florida,

from our East Coast, all the way over to Europe. And as you see here, it comes back through Africa, up through Central and South America, back to the United States. Without the Atlantic Moronial Overtuning Circulation, you no longer have a global supply chain. And so for, I don't know, the last four or five years, scientists have been warning that this conveyor belt of air and moisture, water, is slowing down. And they're very fearful it's going to come to a complete stop. Do you remember the movie The Day After? Oh, yes. Yes.

Okay, so that's what, Okay, now that was a... That was a Cycli movie. So there was some truth in there. Cycli. Cycli movie. I like that. I remember that one. It was a Cycli movie.

So, you know, it's fictional. But it was based on this circulation conveyor belt stopping suddenly and an ice age came upon the world. But in real life, if this conveyor belt does stop, that is the precursor of an ice age. And it should not be overlooked. And so there are a growing number of scientists who are not fanatics, they're legitimate, they're not climate political activists, but they're warning.

This circulation conveyor belt is slowing down enormously. And it will, you know, it's what keeps, as the water comes, the water in the air comes past Florida, it takes it up to northern Europe. It keeps the temperatures milder. So if it stops, what happens to northern Europe? Temperatures plunge. Yes, it gets colder. And we saw actually in the last many ice ages, sea travel in the Atlantic was actually shut down because the currents weren't running. And these things happen. I mean, there's,

you know, you can go down through history and actually map these things out. So it's not unusual for the Atlantic current to actually slow down to a crawl or even to stop. And so, so it's not beyond, you know, the realm of possibility for something like that to happen. But, you know, when we're talking three 300 or 400 years ago, you didn't have entire civilizations based on both sides of the Atlantic. You didn't have 75% of your population living along the seashore and all these different things that are going on now. But historically, these things have happened. And if we're to believe that we are in cycles, then we're bound to see a global cooling cycle, which shuts everything down. Historically, you can see a pattern of about 206 years of global warming,

followed by 206 years of global cooling. So I've never denied that we experience global warming. It's absolutely factual. We had global warming. But it's over. The cycle's over. And only Al Gore and the craziest leftists believe that we're still in global warming. In fact, have you noticed, They don't talk about it anymore. No.

It's climate change. It's climate change, right? They don't say global warming anymore because they know that it's changing to global cooling. And then they're going to say, you see, you didn't listen to us. And now the earth is broken. Right. It's broken. Look at this.

You destroyed. It's your fault. You did it. The Earth had a nervous breakdown, and now everything is freezing. But it's a pattern. Every 200 plus years, the climate changes on the planet. So we're going into a 200-year global cooling cycle. Now, you put that with a possible 100-year drought on the western United States, and you have a radically different landscape

for North America. Yes. In food production, in population centers, in water supply. The people in the West are gradually going to move to other places in the country. Out of necessity. I mean, right now people live in the Northwestern, just in California, because it's very fertile. It's expensive already to live out there, but you know you can get fresh food.

You know that your farm to fresh table restaurant is available for you. It's other than the politics. It has at least been for some a very comfortable living. But the L.A. Times adds the other end to the story about droughts, which is the farms themselves, mega farms for pistachios, grapes, almonds, even for dairy, that this crop, the rotation, especially this year coming up, is in peril because of lack of water. And it's water that isn't just going to be able to be shipped in from Nevada. If this crop fails, what do you think it's going to do to the price of dairy, pistachios, and other products? Well, and you're actually going to see that the San Joaquin Valley is going to not have

anything available. And Rick, you talked about the idea that, you know, farmland area is going to shift. You know, we have this big belt of farmland stretches from Canada, you know, all the way down to Missouri and everything. I'm prime, you know, real estate. And it got me curious to thinking, you know, I remember a story a couple of months ago about Bill Gates buying up farmland, right? And let's say that you knew that was going to get cooler. Okay. Let's just say you knew it was going to get cooler. Where would you buy farmland then anticipating that happening next 20 to 50 years? Where would you buy farmland? The Southeastern United States. His biggest purchases of farmland

have been in Arkansas and Louisiana. Wow. So, I mean, if nothing else, I mean, that would cause you to question, does Bill Gates know something about the coming cooling cycle? Of course he does. Of course he does.

But, you know, just keep that in mind. Those are the biggest track. I'm talking 70,000, 80,000 acres of land. He's purchased something like 242,000 acres of farmland. He's become the largest private owner of farmland in the United States. And he's buying it in areas that if we're going into a global cooling cycle, that's going to be prime farmlands. I asked Jim Rogers many years ago,

one of the most successful investors in the world, trader, investor, and I asked him, I said, Jim, if you were 25 years old and starting out in life, what career would you choose? And he said, farmer. Isn't that interesting? Yes. With all the experience and success that he has in business, he said the place to be is farming. People have to eat every day. And a lot of his investments are in farming and food production.

And so he sees where it's going. We were talking about the Ice Age and the Maunder minimum is a particular type of Ice Age. It's named for an astronomer who had the name Mondor. But I found this painting today. This is Europe during the Mondor minimum ice age in the year 1645 to 1715.

Wow. The artist, what a happy painting this artist chose to depict everyday life in Europe. That's a dead family there on the right. Yes. Is this from plague? Well, and that goes along with...

Plagues go with the Ice Age. Yes. Pestilence, droughts, famine coincide. And sin. Yes. And sin. And rampant sin. The bubonic plague came from, with the Ice Age, you have moist, you have short, moist summers. Yes. And the green rotted. Right.

And it got a mildew. Right. And the rats ate the mildew. And so the bubonic plague came from rats eating mildewed grain. Well, there were fleas on the rats. The rats ate the grain. They multiplied all over the place. And so there were more. And the fleas, right. And the fleas followed the rats. The rats ate the grain. They multiplied all over the place. And so there

were fleas, right? The fleas followed the rats. And then the rats went to the people. And that's the, you know, that was the cover of People magazine in their day. I mean, that's people dying in the streets because of pestilence. So we don't have anything like this right now because of coronavirus. Well, what's interesting about what you just said, though, Rick, is that if what we're describing here is true, people will experience coronavirus pandemic lockdown-like effects for the next hundred years. You're talking about a third of the population not having access to food or being shut down. Nature is going to shut you down if you live in the Northwest. It is a great example, actually, what you experienced this past year from man, a man-made lockdown.

Well, God's got a God-made lockdown for you coming. That's right. And governments, heartless, cold, calculating governments are not going to make decisions based on mercy. They make it based on greed. They're just going to make hard decisions. We have too many people, not enough food, not enough water. And on top of that, we have hordes of invaders coming from other continents looking for food and water. Right. So what's the solution don't can't make more food we can't create more water but we can reduce the amount of people that use the food and water

Napoleon Napoleon said armies travel on its stomach hmm what did he mean that means you've got to feed your soldiers and the soldiers are going to go where the food is. They're looking and they're looking for food. Yes. One reason the soldiers are out willing to fight to die is they're trying to find food for their families. But another thing, where was Napoleon defeated? Russia. Russia. Waterloo, right? Why?

He invaded Russia in a nice age. Wrong. Okay? His men froze to death. That's why he lost. He didn't calculate in his battle plans that he was invading Russia in an ice age. Right. And Russia has gone through a few ice ages. They were like, bring it on, boy. Come over here. Yeah. The Russians have been through a lot.

Well, you mentioned Napoleon. Napoleon came out of the Jacobin Revolution in France, and only two years before the Jacobin Revolution, there was a famine, a historic freeze, and it shut down a lot of the farming. That led to food shortages, which expounded upon existing political unrest. I mean, look in the current age. What would it look like if the grocery stores could not provide meat, wheat, bread for the people? Well, according to Bloomberg, we're there. In the sense of the food prices, Rick, are about to double. In some cases, you can see double the price for things like soda, bread, pizza dough. And the craziest part about this, Rick, it's not even due to a lack of food resources.

The global supply chain has been so destroyed, disrupted by the pandemic that throughout the world you're seeing these spikes in crop prices. Now we have a drought coming in one of the major production centers in the country. And we're not alone here because a place like Ukraine, countries relied on Ukraine to produce lots of wheat. Do you think they're going to produce a lot of wheat this year? Their country is concentrated on starting a war with Russia. And somebody's hauling away their topsoil. And that's what Sergey Lavrov said. Have you seen the price of lumber lately? Oh, man. And it's not because there's a lack of lumber. And that's what's really weird about it, Rick. Lumber prices are going up, but the lumber supply hasn't changed. What happened is last year it was

disrupted. And then to compensate, the lumber companies made lumber during that time. And now there was purchase of lumber. And so now you have that ripple effect that has gone on. And it's not that suddenly there's no trees. They're still harvesting trees. The same amount of lumber is available, but prices have gone up because the supply chain was disrupted. And the housing industry was halted last year, and now it's restarted. Right. And so, you know, what do you do when you have, let's say, a one- to five-year disruption in a cycle? It could take decades to recover in any particular industry.

And one of the things that this particular article that we had up that pointed out was that Edward mentioned too, is not that there's a lack of supply. The supply is there, but getting the supply from one point to another is the problem. And you have to deal with the trade war, too, because in the Bloomberg article,

it noted the Chinese have been coming in and bidding up the prices of wheat, corn and soy. Now, these are heartland crops out of Iowa, Michigan, other states in the center of the country, not affected by this drought. But the prices specifically of soybeans are up 80 percent. Wheat's up 30 percent and the price of corn has doubled. Now, this is only going to be expanded further. And you have to wonder, are the Chinese doing it? Because they are also studying the cycles. They know they can put America in a major pinch if we can't afford to eat our own grain. Well, they have to feed 1.5 billion people. That's true.

And they're scurrying for resources. When my daughter lived in Ecuador, she would travel into some of the most remote areas of the Andes Mountains. I was always jealous of that part because she'd tell me these stories about

these treks into the Andes to get to these farmers. And she was searching for coffee beans. Oh, wow. What a story. She was trying to figure out how to finance her work rescuing children. And, you know, so she thought, well, maybe she could become a coffee trader, you know, and that would generate some revenue for her orphanage and the work that she was doing for children. And at times she would

go into the most remote villages in the Andes Mountains where they were growing coffee. And she'd get there and talk to the farmers. And they'd say, all of our coffee is sold for years. For years? For years. To who? The Chinese. Wow.

The Chinese had already been there. In the mountains, in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, the Chinese had already been there. And that's years ago. Yeah. Chinese are spreading out all over the world, searching for food. Okay. What happens when drought and ice age and other calamities change us to the earth's climate? What happens when conditions intensify?

What did Jesus say about the last days? There will be wars and rumors of wars. There will be pestilence and earthquakes and famines in diverse places, many places. You could interpret that as here, there, everywhere. It's just going to be all over the world. It will be a competition, strife for food, for necessities. You know, a lot of people have criticized me, you know, talking about an ice age.

They're going, Rick, you've got it all wrong. You're a horrible Bible prophecy teacher. Where do you come up with this ice age stuff? The Bible says it's going to be fire. Yes, yes, it's going to be fire. At the end, fire. Well, then how could there be an ice age? What do you mean?

Put a snowball in the fireplace and see what happens to it. Melt very quickly. Yes. Did you think because it's frozen that the Lord can't melt it in a fire? But an ice age causes all the things that Jesus said would be taking place. Famine, pestilence, disease, even seismic disruptions. Because for some reason during an ice age, volcanoes erupt. There is more volcanoes.

And that's tied in some activity too. The ash rising up puts a blanket of ash in the atmosphere. And what does that do? It lowers the temperature. Now you have more depressed food production. You have more famine. You have more disruptions to societies. You have more wars. An ice age is absolutely the perfect conduit to produce the very things that Jesus said would be taking place when he returns. Absolutely, Rick.

So, yes. So don't rule out an ice age. Like I said, just because the planet is frozen doesn't mean it won't melt. When the Lord applies the heat, the ice will melt and the planet will burn and there won't be even ashes left because this planet will burn to such a heat there will not even be ashes remaining of the planet. We can't be fooled by the notion that man will somehow find technology to outsmart God, outsmart cycles.

Obviously, there are people that think that this might be the solution for the cure to food shortages. Bloomberg's saying that genetically modified bread might be the route to survive this. I guess they're going to make bread that can survive in arid conditions, in extreme cold or extreme warmth. I'm not sure if you're going to want to eat that bread, but this CEO says that that's the way. You're already eating genetically modified bread. About 95% of the wheat in America is GMO. A lot of people having digestive problems and they're blaming gluten and other things, you know, wheat,

and they're changing their diet. Just get rid of the GMO wheat. Stop eating genetically modified food. Watch what happens to your stomach. A lot of those problems will clear up. I know people, they're concerned about their children, you know, and they think that their children are having food allergies. No, they're having allergic reaction to genetically modified food.

And we've only been genetically modifying wheat. And I mean, we've doing a genetic husbandry for years but we haven't been actually going in and manipulating the DNA right we've only been doing that the past 20 and 30 years now when do all these kids start getting all these weird you know gluten intolerance and you know lactose intolerance all these disorders yeah right when we start modifying playing with the blueprint that God already had in place. And so, but a lot of these companies are betting now. In fact, in that last article, we had the CEO of one company called BioCirrus is betting. I mean, he's saying he believes in

the next two to five years, you're going to see a major disruption in the global food supply. What does he know that others don't know? Well, he knows enough to go to Argentina. That's where his company is headquartered. And that Argentina, specifically the city in Argentina, that is their largest crop exporting city. That's where he's moved his headquarters to start producing this new GMO wheat. This particular... Yes, the CEO of Tobias Jarrus. Well, I am going to put my trust in the Lord. Hallelujah.

And Jeremiah 17 says that as well. Jeremiah 17, verses 7 through 8. Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth outer roots by the river, shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaves shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought.

Amen. Neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Careful, that means shall not be worrisome. Not going to be troubled. Well, shall not be troubled in the year of drought. But you will see your fruit, the fruit of your life produced. But you have to be,

you have to be a man or woman planted by living water, trusting in the Lord. And when you are planted, living in Christ, when you are in Christ, not in church, in Christ. Yes. When you are in Christ, God will make you like a tree planted by the river and your roots will go out through the ground and reach into that river. Christ is the river. And you will not perish.

You will not dry up when the heat comes, when the drought comes. Your life will, the leaves of your life will be green and you will not worry when the drought comes because you will continue to be fruitful. You will produce good fruit for the Lord. This is a promise. This is a promise from God Almighty

to His people. Amen. And He gives that same scripture twice in the Old Testament. And we need to live by it. So our lives can be a witness. I think about that. I look for these stories of Christians or just people being courageous. Because you know what?

We learned this from Pastor Coates in Canada. Just taking a stand during the perilous times, you'll be separated from other people because they will say, why is that person so unafraid? Why are they willing to stand up what they believe when I'm so afraid I won't leave my home? Rick, I found one of those stories this morning, actually. There was an incident in Oak Park, Illinois. Now, a UPS delivery man dropped off a 97-pound package in front of this person's home. And a four-year-old,

he wanted to help his mom out, So he went outside and tried to bring the package in. Well, unfortunately, that package fell on that kid. The four-year-old, his name is Max Pratt. That's the delivery man. He came in to save the young man. But this delivery man was about 200 meters away, roughly, when the package fell on the kid. The kid could have been crushed in minutes. But I'll tell you, Rick, that delivery man showed a love for his fellow man. He ran up, saved that kid, and this went on with his day. That's good. Good story. Good way to end today's news.

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