Carlos conquers Carrington

The meteors were low earth orbit satellites of one sort or another and the CME had interfered with or simply cut communication with their earth-based ground control. Unable to make any micro-telemetric adjustments to maintain their orbital integrity, they became prisoners of earth's gravity. They headed back down faithfully, just like Brown's Cows for milking, to the ever-loving and welcoming open arms of Mother Earth. Streaks of golden fire marked their self-destructive re-entry into the evening sky, their welcome home. After all, this is where they came from decades earlier.

Now Carlos was facing another more pressing problem. The medication for his ADHD (his monthly supply), was meant to be delivered that morning. Faced with imminent cold turkey, withdrawal from his prescribed Ritalin was an unwelcome but assured outcome. He determined to make a shopping run to the local public charging station/take out restaurant which sold a type of Absinthe spirit. He had used it as a substitute if he had ever overused his strictly prescribed ADHD supply in the past.

The only problem was that the power grid had gone out during the previous evening, and this meant that his e-scooter was not 100% charged. But his scooter had the super battery that could provide extra acceleration if you needed a quick getaway. He set off soon after the city lights returned hoping that the public charging station/restaurant was still operational.

He passed the local playground park, which was now a shanty town of tents and makeshift lean-to dwellings and had become the inferior sub-section of the modern city that Carlos lived in. It had been like that for many months - it smelt like it too. Public toilets were unavailable because of security reasons. Discarded trash and human waste was deposited in surprising locations. If he was desperate enough, he might be able to score home-baked meth-amphetamine from there to substitute for his prescription, but at what price and at what risk?

He pressed on but noticed that he had menacing and unwelcome looking company in his vicinity - three of them riding e-scooters formed up behind him.

The bright shiny net zero carbon future, promised to us by all those future fakers from the climate alarm ranks, had gotten everything wrong - a full 180 degrees out of alignment with reality. Global cooling, not warming, was upon us. A mini–Ice Age.

Unnoticed back in 1859 the Carrington event had another surprise for humanity and for animal life susceptible to it. The magnetic North and South poles were inexorably moving from their stationary historical locations. The ever-reliable compass points were imperceptibly on the march. Those solar pulses of 1859 had affected earth's invisible magnetic shield aka, the Magnetosphere, as if there was a giant unseen hand sliding a contact lens on a monolithic eyeball (The Earth's surface) to readjust it for comfort. Thus: the magnetic North pole was heading south, and the South magnetic pole was heading north.

Migratory animals were affected by this, especially herds of Pilot whales and Sperm whales. They relied on their internal magnetic pointers to guide them safely through deep water channels and bays. The gradually shifting North South magnetic axis was sometimes just enough out of expected alignment to cause the whales to beach in an unfamiliar bay, which when it drained at low tide, prevented them from returning to safety.

The drifting magnetic North and South poles liberated by the Carrington event in 1859 were also causing serpentine deviations in the usually linear patterns of the circumpolar vortices and jet streams. They pulled down unusually intense Arctic and Antarctic oceans of frigid icy atmosphere to lower latitudes. Thus, positioned they hung in place week after week, month after interminable month.

The climate pundits had set our future as if we were going to be inhabiting an imaginary tropical island, "Christmas in Heaven". The reality was more like World War Two. Stalingrad January 1943. Hitler's doom. The Nazis vs the frozen Soviet Russian Front! The climate was unambiguously growing colder and no one in their right mind could deny it.

The practical outcome of this steadily intensifying coldness meant that due to increasing demand, electricity was becoming a luxury that many could no longer afford. For those who could purchase the outlandishly expensive E-cars, they were being subsidised by the average consumer who was charged ever increasing electricity bills to offset the cost of recharging these cars. Charging one consumed many times the usual domestic daily household usage. Private car ownership was now out of the question for most and there was almost no private traffic on the roads either, especially after dark.

Energy demand became higher. Electricity supply had become more like a rare commodity than the ubiquity it once had been.