Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell
Strikes Earth
With nasty cold
fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. —
along with last winter described by USA Today as “one of the
snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record” — climatologist John L.
Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come.
In fact, Casey, a former
space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with
the provocative book “Dark
Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell,” which warns
that a radical shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and
other environmentalists have it completely wrong. The earth, he says, is
cooling, and cooling fast.
And unless the scientific
community and political leaders act soon, cold, dark days are ahead. Casey
says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because
of diminished solar activity. He says trends indicate we could be headed for
colder temperatures similar to those seen in the late 1700s and early
1800s when the sun went into a “solar minimum” — a phenomenon with significantly
reduced solar activity, including solar flares and sunspots. If he’s right,
that would be very bad news.
“Dark Winter” posits that a
30-year period of cold has already begun. Frigid temperatures, and food
shortages that inevitably result, could lead to riots and chaos.
Casey tells Newsmax,
“All you have to do is trust natural cycles, and follow the facts; and that
leads you to the inevitable conclusion that the sun controls the climate,
and that a new cold era has begun.” Casey is president of the Space and Science
Research Corp., an Orlando, Fla., climate research firm.
His new book debunks
global warming orthodoxy. For over a decade, he reports, the planet’s oceans
have been cooling. And since 2007, the atmospheric temperature has been
cooling as well.
“The data is pretty
solid,” Casey says. “If you look at the 100-year global temperature chart,
you look at the steep drop off we’ve had since 2007, it’s the steepest drop in
global temperatures in the last hundred years.” So how can the media
and scientific elites make a case for global warming when it’s actually
cooling?
Casey suggests
climate-change theorists have simply wedded themselves to the wrong theory,
namely, that global temperatures respond to the level of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere. Any scientist suggesting otherwise is castigated as
a heretic, though there are other prominent scientists who support Casey.
Noted Russian astrophysicist
Habibullo I. Abdussamatov has argued that a new, mini-ice age has begun,
though Casey doesn’t go that far. He does agree with Abdussamatov that
the real driver of global climate is solar activity, namely sunspots. These
correspond to shifts in global temperature with a greater than 90 percent
accuracy, he says.
The environmental
left focuses instead on ever-rising greenhouse emissions, suggesting nature
is just taking a bit of a breather before the upward march in temperatures
ineluctably resumes.
“There are two fundamental
flaws with that,” Casey says. “No. 1, the greenhouse-gas theory, and the
global climate models that they produced, never permitted a pause. As long
as CO2 levels were going up, the only thing that could happen
was global temperatures could go up. That has not happened.
“No. 2, there could
absolutely be no cooling, much less a pause. And yet we’ve been cooling for
11 years now.” The recent polar vortex that sent temperatures across
the Midwest plunging to sub-zero records is not an aberration,
Casey says. If “Dark
Winter” is right, that means the nation is busily preparing for
the wrong calamity.
“We don’t have 10
years,” Casey warns. “We’ve squandered during President Obama’s administration
eight years … and we didn’t have eight years to squander.” The worst of the
cooling cycle, Casey predicts, will hit in the late 2020s and the
early 2030s. Food riots will break out, demand for heating oil will
spike, and the failure of the corn crop will put the squeeze on ethanol. He
even predicts the United States will ban agricultural exports to feed its
own citizens.
When Casey developed
his theories in 2007, he emerged with several predictions. Rising temperatures
would begin to reverse themselves within three years. The sun would enter a
phase of reduced activity he called “solar hibernation.” And oceanic and
atmospheric temperatures would enter a long decline. So far, all of Casey’s
predictions have come true. He says, “My theory tells you when it will be
cold … and it is the cold that kills.” Casey also posits that a long-term
cold spell will have dire effects on the earth’s geology.
As air and ocean temperatures,
the earth’s crust begins changing, leading to more volcanic activity and
earthquakes. Casey notes that the worst earthquake to strike the continental
U.S. in modern times was in 1812 at New Madrid, Missouri – during the last
great solar minimum. The climate changes also will affect human activity
and may be a prelude to revolutionary politics. He says the French Revolution
took place at the beginning of the last solar minimum in 1789.
“It could be one of
the reasons Putin is so eager to get Ukraine,” Casey says. “For many decades
before Ukraine became independent, it was the primary source of wheat for
the Soviet Union during cold weather times. Putin must have the wheat of
Ukraine for the new cold era.”
Casey has a worried
look as he talks about the revelations in “Dark Winter.” “There
is no human on earth, much less here in the U.S., who has experienced the
depth and duration of cold we’re about to experience — it’s that serious,”
he says.
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Source:http://agenda21news.com/2014/11/climatologist-30-year-cold-spell-strikes-earth/#more-3752
I'm not confident in any predictions of huge sweeping global trends, but itt certainly felt like global cooling last night!
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