Solidarity Prepping: Preparing For Climate Change

Solidarity Prepping: Preparedness without the fascism.

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  • I really do get where Dr Guy McPreason is coming from, and I also get it when Michael Dowd says you can’t just tell people they are going to die.

    So, how do we communicate our own demise in the 6th mass extinction?

    Firstly, I like the manner in which Michael Dowd addresses Guy McPheasrsons’ misplaced accusation of defamation.

    Dowd on McPhearson

    But outside of the land of the polite, compassionate, and educated response to the 6th mass extinction, there is much. To be desired. Derision, denial & accusations of insanity are among the most extreme anti climate change trolling online, and it IS trolling just to be clear. While there are probably a multitude of reasons for this, primarily these come to the forefront:

    On a personal level

    It is/ you are too complicated, I can’t talk to you.

    Too many links are really off-putting.

    I don’t watch the news, I don’t believe in science, I know what I know. I’m not interested & you are wrong.

    Predictions, predictions, predictions, all wrong, all got the dates wrong

    Quoting Roman Emperors on truth & doomism:

    Marcus Aurelius

    Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken

    On a cultural level

    A culture that can evolve inside closed forums of special interest groups using the environment for recreational purposes can become toxic, where the Admins and Moderators sympathise with the trolls, of feel unable to act against them due to Stockholm syndrome:

    Abuser love:  Trolls are kind towards some of the Admins while they are onside with the Trolls ethos. This divides the Admins. Trolls primarily attack new members, ensuring they adhere to the group think & if they don’t & especially if they try to address emotive issues such as climate change they risk ridicule & derision.

    Interestingly, sympathetic members might private message a new member, surprised and apologetic about other members. But clearly a quick search quickly reveals sites dominated by a set group think. Group think is dangerous.

    “Wet Bulb Temperatures are BS!” Pteppers-UK

    Hyperthermia or heat exhaustion is a killer. Failure to understand dangerous wet bulb temperatures on a warming planet have been proved to be lethal, for the outdoorsy types.

    Doomers & Acivists or Doomers are Activists or Doomers are Innactivists

    This conflict is even present in some climate activist groups. There is a conflict between doomers and some climate activists, especially those who follow Proff Michael E Mann, who has ceased to research climate science & now concentrates on ensuring the climate message is optimistic hopium. While at the same time claiming to talk to doomers while blocking them on X (Twitter) and claiming that they have given up & are doing nothing. Based on no empirical research or peer reviewed papers, he makes these comments. Perhaps Professor Michael E Mann could inform us as to how he has helped reduce fossil Fuels emissions through his activism? None at all, fossil fuel emissions are increasing.

    This is not a conflict started by Doomers. But as Michael Dowd says “you can’t just tell people they are going to die.” Little wonder that we are vilified, Let’s just not turn it on each other more than we already have.

  • Summary.

    If it seems to you that the climate situation is getting worse?

    Methane increase “explosive” -NOAA

    Rapid off the charts increase in Ocean Surface Temperature (SST).

    Driven by the cancerous fossil fuel industry.

    <10 hirosimas/Second energy entering the ocean & hitting the earth.

    Indian Ocean- South india & Sea around Florida reported to be hot as a bath.

    “Climate change and extreme heat waves strongly affect sea urchin populations,” Okamoto said. “When their numbers explode, sea urchins can devastate ecosystems by eating everything in their path. In northern California, heat waves mean massive amounts of baby sea urchins. In southern California, it’s the opposite, heat waves collapse the number of new young urchins.”

    https://artsandsciences.fsu.edu/spectrum-winter-2021/article/hot-water#:~:text=%E2%80%9CClimate%20change%20and%20extreme%20heat,amounts%20of%20baby%20sea%20urchins.

    1992 Rio Earth Summit to present,  Zero Action.

    Humans are brininging about the collapse of the biosphere.

    The evidence is overwhelming that the agenda is to burn all the fossil fuels now! Followed by geoengineering..

    This is our “Don’t Look Up Moment” fossil fuels, Banking & Disaster Capitalism are the enemy.

    Watch

  • “A heat-period is defined as day(s) on which a Level 3 Heat Health Alert is issued and/or day(s) when the mean Central England Temperature is greater than 20°C; between June and August 2022, there were five heat-periods that met this criterion.” Source: MET Office.

    I have watched a number of Preppers YouTuber channels for some years and note that they are developing their own homegrown weather forecasting, ignoring severe heat events, and “poopooing” the accepted science of meteorology & empirical data. They believe that the above temperature of 20°C is too low, though fail to provide any indication as to why.

    The problem lies in data. The failure to grasp the data, understanding mean temperature, and the fact that aggregated data produces a monthly mean which is lower than 20°C. Average temperature for the UK for June, July, August & September 1961-2020 is between 14-18°C so therefore 20°C is the anomaly & marker for a heatwave. The suggestion that ti’s is too cool fails to take humidity into account. 

    Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210129233611/https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat

    The climate of the UK has always been characterised as unsettled and predominantly rainy. The weather is the Englishmans favourite topic for discussion- Cold, wet & windy. Therefore this would indicate there is is a high level of airborne moisture. While the weather is cool the airborne moisture is hardly noticeable. Add some additional heat to the mean and quickly we enter the realm of the unbearable and dangerous.

    The Dangers of Dismissing the Warnings

    I think that Preppers would prefer a heatwave to be classed as 30°C or over. But failure to understand humidity & the increased carrying capacity of moisture in the atmosphere brought on by warmer air.  It’s either a failure to understand or flat out denial of science or both.

    Setting the bar higher is a mistake. It would not take into account situations like south facing gardens, other natural and man-made environments, which become heat traps. Temperatures in heat traps can be 5-7° higher than the forecast & actual air temperature. Couple higher temperatures with humidity & sun traps can become “thermal kill zones”

    Learn About & Understand Wet-Bulb Temperatures & the Impacts on life.

    https://solidarityprepping.co.uk/2023/09/06/why-severe-heat-is-more-dangerous-han-severe-cold/

  • UPDATE” In August 2026 WE HAVE HAD A BRUTAL SUMMER STARTING IN  MAY. Nearly 3000 people died in May and June 2026 from heat.

    70% humidity

    Wet bulb temperature 33°.98C

    “Wet-bulb temperatures above 30 °C (86 °F) pose potential fatal danger to humans outside. It’s also very uncomfortable. In these conditions, you should avoid direct sunlight and drink lots of water.”

    https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

  • The Age of Fire

    The Northern Boreal Forests are on fire, there are wildfire across southern Europe, Tenerife, South America & Hawaii.

    These fires are driven by climate change, global heating and now declared by the UN as Global Boiling.

    The increased heating of the planet is driven by population growth, mass consumption, overshoot and the increased burning of Fossil Fuels. We know but the fossil fuel companies suppressed the information in exchange for profit & extinction.

    I know some preppers will read this and just say it’s bullshit and then interchange weather with climate and say things like the climate and weather change all the time. The 1st problem is that weather is not climate and the second is that for the last 8- 10,000 years the climate has been stable with minor fluctuations caused by Milankovich cycles, El Nino & La Ninia & volcanic events. It has been at least 12,000 years since the last earth impact event which affected the global climate, possibly ending the last ice age. Climate change normally takes place over geologic time.

    Today we are in abrupt and irreversible climate change. Its onset now is rapid & this is what is driving the 6th mass extinction. Glaciers and icesheets across the globe are melting at astonishing and alarming rates. This is catastrophic for some species like Emperor Penguins now, and most of the rest of all life on earth.

    “Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be quasi-extinct by the end of the century, based on current global warming trends”

    The Dangers of High Temperatures & Humidity for Humans, Other Animals & Agriculture

    Rising temperatures are impacting harvests and making agriculture futures uncertain.

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034007?gclid=CjwKCAjwoqGnBhAcEiwAwK-OkWOny8icr5XubTv5JVJ-otU20gUFt-kjvAR-vh0w8nVemtG_-OzlnhoCrIsQAvD_BwE

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/01/climate-crisis-global-heating-food-farming-agriculture

    know, it’s a left wing paper, but the right wing press don’t want you to know that climate change is a problem, that it could result in famine, drought, pandemic, mass internal and external refgees and civilisation collapse.

    Periods of severe heat turn nature into a tinder box. Putting plants under stress severe stress. The Northern Boreal Forests are burning!Inceased temperature have thawed the permafrost. The Boreal Forets fires are destroying the last great wildernesses. The last of earth’s great carbon sinks is losing its carbon.

    We were told 1.5°C was catastrophic, could will likely be at 1.5-1.8 by 2024. Will the story now be 1.5 is tolerable, 2°C is where we are aiming to stop. Proff James E Hansen is probably the best authority on where earth is headed: Global Warming in the Pipeline for Earth.

    Forest animals are dieing in their 1000s in these forest fires.

    Human mortality from Severe Heat

    The actual death is often caused by a heart attack or organ failure.

    Lee says she’s heard that people might even be filled with euphoria near the end stages of hyperthermia, like those who experience hypothermia—a loss of body heat.

    For some, this process happens quickly—sometimes within two or three hours. That’s part of what makes it so lethal: You can go from feeling bothered by the heat to dead in 90 minutes.”

    https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/07/14/whats-it-like-to-die-from-the-heat/#:~:text=The%20actual%20death%20is%20often,within%20two%20or%20three%20hours

    When the combination of heat and humidity mean a person or animal can no longer cool down naturally like sweating, death is quick to follow unless you can find a way to cool down.

    When the temperature exceed 27°C with high humidity the body loses the ability to sweat. Sweating is how th body cools itself.

    A combination of heat and humidity is known as a wet bulb temperature. The charts below may be downloaded and kept for future reference. It’s important to be able to measure temperature & humidity accurately. 

    Stay ahead of the curve.. -/+2° accuracy

    https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-1.58,47.06,2377/loc=-1.355,52.101https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-1.58,47.06,2377/loc=-1.355,52.101

    Stay hydrated, drink iced drinks, stay out of the Sun, get into a cool paddling pool, get your clothes wet, take things slow, avoid alcohol and use hydration electrolytes.

    Stay safe.

    Severe cold can be coped with, with clothing and fire. Severe heat is a struggle for life.

  • The 1970 The Great Bhola Cyclone.

    “The deadliest tropical cyclone in world history is the Great Bhola Cyclone, which struck Bangladesh in 1970 and caused approximately 500,000 fatalities

    The Climate Emergency is a grand opportunity for unscrupulous politicians

    Explained excellently here.

    And unscrupulous preppers talking about lockdowns which are never going to happen.

    “Professor Christina Pagel, of University College London, told i: “I think the chance of another lockdown is somewhere between ‘extremely unlikely’ and ‘vanishingly unlikely’”

    https://inews.co.uk/news/lockdown-new-covid-restrictions-unlikely-uk-cases-rise-2584130

    Application Health Professor or a prepper?

  • This is a condensed version of the basic adaptations required for climate change survival as outlined in the Climate Safe Villages Forums.

    ClimateSafe Villages is a preparatory survival concept for individuals and communities to attempt to survive climate change. Ideally large urban populations should organise themselves into smaller networked groups of approximately 100 people/families this way everyone one is able to know & recognise each other in that group. These are referred to as hubs or local hub communities.

    All information is open source and non copyrighted. 

    The Climate Safe Community is an open forum & community across the globe. This us a global crisis & we are now “in a fight for our lives”, Dr Peter Carter, IPCC Reviewer. 

    ClimateSafe Villages

    Basic Principles & the social contract

    Skill Share Shops ideally should exist for at least 4 ClimateSafe Villages, region or city and provide expertise & independent advice in all of the essential climate change survival items below plus much more. 

    A. The local hub communities encourage all their members and local citizens to start growing organic gardens everywhere to ensure an adequate and reliable food supply. Every home or building rooftop in urban areas will need a big garden to survive the worst of what is coming. Hydroponics and aquaponics will also help build food security in urban or limited land areas. You won’t be able to produce every food item you want, but if you produce a surplus in your gardens you can trade with each other or individuals outside the ClimateSafe Village for other things you will need.

    B. The local eco-community must secure its energy system against extreme climate consequences. Encouraging members to gets solar and/or wind on their property is a basic step. . 

    C. The local eco-community must begin quickly to protect its drinking water and sewage systems against intensified rain bombs, river and lake flooding, sea level rise, and other extreme climate consequences. Home or business water capture, rainwater harvesting and water filtration systems are a good start. These do not have to be expensing buried systems, old olive import barrels are adequate. 2100 litres is 10 barrels. 

    D. Help your outside local community understand critical medical facilities, critical commodity warehouses, and other critical infrastructure and services that must be supplied and fortified against the escalating climate change and rapidly approaching climate disasters that will affect many of these communities far faster than they are prepared for.

    E. There are also many other things your local stay-where-you-are local urban, suburban, or rural model can do to help get your outside the ClimateSafe Village local community prepared to deal with what is coming, including creating a plan and reserving supplies for how to fairly and humanely deal with growing numbers of destitute and desperate climate migrants (internal & external)(climagees) who soon will coming from the climate unsafe areas be seeking refuge in your city, suburb or rural area.

    Unfortunately with this stay-where-you-are local urban, suburban, and rural model, if you are not already in a climate safer area, there will come a point that it will no longer be safe for your group to remain in some urban, suburban or rural area. Every stay-where-you-are urban, surburban and rural satellite model should consider this possibility carefully and plan for it and its timetable long in advance.

    Suppose you are currently in a climate change high-risk area. Eventually, you will have to buy some fertile land as a temporary or longer-term eco-community emergency backup and “bug-out” space. In addition, this emergency backup bug-out land would also need to be pre-stocked with everything your eco-community would need to survive for months to as long as years. In addition, you would have to have the means to transport and defend everything you will need at that new eco-community bug-out location. The painful truth is that unless you are already in a climate change-safer location to begin with, at some point, you will probably be forced to move if you want to survive.

    Please note that urban and suburban ClimateSafe Villages inherently may not be able to do as much food growing as rural land-based ClimateSafe Villages because the land owned by urban and suburban members is most likely not connected and contagious. But urban and suburban members can get creative and, through networking, sharing, and trading accomplish much of the necessary climate change preparation and adaptation.

    You will be on your own, you need community to do this & an inclusive life philosophy.  Hiding in a bunkers alone will send you mad. There will be no end in sight. 

  • Insect Apocalypse!

    Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study

    Guardian headline.

    Here is the article

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/09/global-pollinator-losses-causing-500000-early-deaths-a-year-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    Less dead bugs on the windshield. The insect apocalypse is directly linked with the use of agricultural chemicals, especially the highly toxic neonicotinoid pesticides.

    The study indicates that 500,000 people are dying due to a lack of nutritious good and this is due to.poor pollination.

    Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic

    This article was 1st published in 2023. Its now 2026 and agriculture is collapsing due to governmental innactiona and climate deniers blocking action and pretending that taxation will increase. Climate optimists are as bad becsue they give out false hope like candy laced with the poison of innaction.