Nostradamus C8 Q16: Leaders who squander the chance to adapt to climate change
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, 2022

This verse is linked to the climatic events set out in C1 Q17 and it identifies personages who fail their people by not paying attention to the warning bells found in Nostradamus' verses. The significance of these world wide flooding events is set out in my paper called Floods.

The text of Centuries 8 Quatrain 16 ties it firmly to the quote in the 1555 Preface that provides the cornerstone guidance about Nostradamus' major themes. The relevant sections of the Preface commentary are shown alongside. These quotes and the verses linked to them are prominent in the trail I compiled for reconstructing Nostradamus' work.

The connections between verses and this quote,  together with modern topics uniting the anagrams in these verses,  enables the trail for floods to be followed. In so doing it removes the obscurities faced by earlier analysts. 

The main verses involved are listed in pairs in the table (top right). I list them in pairs because there is a natural fit of ideas using that style but they also form a cohesive whole with cross-threads between the text and anagrams of all verses in the group of ten. 

This verse pairs with C9 Q69 because their text involves vast floods of the nature mentioned in the quotes.

In line 4 of C9 Q69 we have "Lobster on land" implying a flood reaching up into the mountains. 

That line also states "not a third thereof will remain" which is the counterpart to the entry in the quote saying "there shall not be scarcely and land".  But it is also a near perfect match to the statement in the current verseC8 Q16, which says there will be such a great sudden flood that one won't have place nor land to fall upon; the waters mount to the Olympic Fesulan"

The rarest anagrams found in the current verse provide a sinister basis for themes already begun in earlier parts of the trail. They involve environmental hazards resulting from human behavior. Their outcome is increased illness and death. This aspect also ties it to other verses in this series.

Key Ideas:

Steffanie, Qabir, renotifies, Modone, waterline, deluged, resentful, Olympian, imply, Easterners, dreading, funerals, eagerest, Leaguers, refuels, busiest site, foresent, sulfane, angriest, refusal. Heroin, infest, freest, fuels, reenters