Forgotten Civilization

Subtitled 'the role of solar outbursts in our past and future', this study claims that the last ice age was brought to an abrupt close by coronal mass ejections from the sun, triggering massive volcanic activity, fires and floods. This set civilisation back by thousands of years. He argues that many sites such as Easter Island and the Gobleki Tepe complex in Turkey are much older than previously supposed. He describes in some detail the effect of the last mass coronal ejection in 1859 and the devastating effects it had on electrical infrastructure, then in its infancy. The corresponding effects on worldwide communications in our time would be quite devastating, as the whole of modern life runs on electricity in one form or another. Schoch introduces the field of cosmoclimatology where the behaviour of the sun plays a critical role. This describes the relationship between climate, magnetic field and solar activity and has developed as an alternative explanation of global warming. He cites the work of the Russian Alexey Dmitriev about the implications of the solar system entering an interstellar cloud, which could also have an effect on temperature. One of the appendices contains an interesting discussion on politics, money and science and the way in which parapsychology and other disciplines threaten the materialistic consensus. It is clear that governments should be preparing for an event of the magnitude of 1859, but the public does not know what, if anything, is in place.