Here Comes Global Cooling?

Here’s a report a good research scientist friend sent me this morning and requested comments. Because of the content, I think I should make this public.

This report, dated today, is titled: Coldest Weather in 100 Years to Strike by 2012 -- America Unprepared for New Cold Climate Because of President Obama’s Climate Change Policies. So, okay, that got my attention and I was interested. . . .

The report stated that we are in a time of global cooling, not global warming – which I also believe. Even so, I had to take the time to understand the background of the person making the claim and get some information about how he came to that conclusion.

The enclosed memo was from a group calling itself the Space and Science Research Center out of Florida. The author is John L. Casey, billed as the Director of the Space and Science Research Center, who was once a space policy advisor to the White House and Congress. He has been a consultant to NASA Headquarters performing space shuttle and space station analysis. He has also led teams conducting commercial spaceport design world wide, as well as performing rocket launch studies for the Department of Defense. Here is what I received:

Today, for the first time in over two years, the Director of the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida, has issued a new prediction of the next climate change intended to emphasize the imminent ill-effects of this new climate period in an important warning to the American people and their leadership in Washington.

According to Center Director John Casey, “The climate change predictions which I started to pass out to our government and media in early 2007 based upon the ‘RC Theory’ have now come to pass, exactly as forecast. Global warming has ended, conclusively, as predicted. The Earth’s average temperature has begun its steep decline within the time frame I said it would. And last but not least, the Sun has entered a state of ‘hibernation’ when I said it would. This new solar period is one of the most amazing events in the history of science. During solar hibernations, the Sun makes significant reductions in output which always, always, brings long cold climates to the Earth. Unbelievably, this historic phenomena is still largely and intentionally unreported by the media and our leaders and therefore unknown by the American people. The new cold climate will usher in global travail that will be amplified specifically because of the catastrophic climate change policies of the administration of President Barack Obama that will leave most citizens unprepared.”

The full report has some interesting predictions. Among them is that “fuel shortages will arise in part from the loss of large percentages of corn crops now committed to ethanol for automotive fuels. The utter stupidity of using farm land and food crops for fuel will now be played out on a stage of global distress for all its people.”

Yes, I’ll have to admit that I am basically in agreement with this report, just not too sure about the time-frame mentioned. For instance, some of us may know the old quip about corn being “knee high by the Fourth of July.” Well, that will not be happening again this year -- although the crops are certainly expected to mature at some point this fall. But, yes, the times (weather) they are a-changing. We are obviously getting cooler.