The Sun is Quiet and Our World is Changing; the Future is Almost Here

As I get myself ready to begin writing the fourth episode in my series of Black Sun novels, I look around at the world and what’s happening and I wonder just how accurate my depiction of the very near future will turn out to be. Everybody on the planet knows something is going on with our climate. Extreme weather events are commonplace all over the world. The climate science community has been telling us for years now that climate change is a result of human activity increasing the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This theory is wrong. The evidence is all over the place, for anyone who cares to look. Climate is driven by the electromagnetic activity of the sun, which fluctuates in cycles of varying duration. Right now, we are at solar maximum in the eleven year sunspot cycle. That means there ought to be a lot of sunspots. The reverse is actually the case, however. Sunspot activity is very low. Earth’s atmosphere is collapsing as a result. We are experiencing extreme climate events every day somewhere in the world, but that is only the beginning.

Our world is changing, just as it has many times before; and our future is almost here. Today’s fiction, tomorrow’s reality. My Black Sun novels depict a very possible future. In the past, this planet has been affected by cataclyms that almost wiped out civilizations like the Egyptians and Sumerians. In time, they recovered. The surviving Sumerians migrated to new lands, including Egypt, and they took their knowledge with them. Nobody really knows where the Sumerians came from, but they were probably survivors from earlier disasters. In times of upheaval, societies reivent themselves and the same thing will happen this time. Forget all those TV shows and books that depict a dystopian society of bands of survivors struggling to get started again in a feudal society reminiscent of the Middle Ages. That’s not going to happen. In my version of events, there are people who are aware of what is just around the corner. They have been preparing for decades. It’s time for human society to evolve to the next logical step of a global government and that is what will happen, but just like the Egyptian Phoenix that burns and is reborn from the ashes, change is rarely a peaceful process. Destruction precedes renewal, and though some elements of society may believe they can control that process, the universe is a far more mysterious place than we imagine.