By Alan Caruba
Have you noticed how much earthquake
and volcanic activity has been occurring lately?
There was a major earthquake in Napa,
California on Sunday, August 24th as well as considerable volcanic
activity from Iceland to Papua, New Guinea. August was also a month that set
records for colder U.S. temperatures.
According to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there were some 1,097 “low max” temperature
records broken in the U.S. between August 1 and August 23, meaning that the
maximum temperature during that time period was the lowest it has ever been.
NOAA reported that summer across much of the U.S. has been colder than
normal.
Most of us, after decades of global
warming predictions that became more and more absurd, rising sea levels drowning
Manhattan and Miami, an upsurge in hurricanes, forest fires, and every other
calamity, have concluded that none of these things have happened in the volume
or intensity predicted. In the 70s we were told the Earth would get colder. In
the 80’s and 90’s we were told it would get warmer.
A new book is advising us to prepare
for a serious cold spell that is not only going to arrive in twenty to thirty
years, but will likely stay around to become the next ice age. This time,
though, the prediction is based on well-established climate cycles and the
behavior of the Sun that was known as far back as Galileo’s
day.
The new “normal” is colder weather and
this is because the Sun’s sunspot activity has been in a cyclical decline since
about 1998, producing the latest cooling cycle for the Earth.
In combination with the earthquakes
and volcanic activity, says John L. Casey’s new book, “Dark Winter: How the Sun is Causing a
30-Year Cold Spell” ($24.95, Humanix Books, Boca Raton, FL) what we’re
really looking at is a repeat of the Dalton Minimum, a solar sunspot minimum
that occurred between 1793 and 1830. His earlier book, “Cold Sun” addressed this
cyclical phenomenon.
Casey asks “Will we also experience
volcanic activity that will add to the solar cooling?” and the answer, given the
fifty active volcanoes around the world, is that “We should expect to deal with
multiple geological disasters, including volcanoes and earthquakes, during the
next solar hibernation.” We have in fact already entered that
“hibernation.”
Casey is the president of the Space and Science Research
Corporation. It specializes in independent research regarding the coming
decades of cold weather. For thirty-five years Casey has been active in science
and high tech industries. He has been a national space policy advisor to the
White House and Congress, and a former space shuttle engineer, consultant to
NASA headquarters.
Casey has formulated a “Bicentennial
Cycle of 206 years correlated with near 100 percent accuracy to every major
cold-temperature period of the past 1,200 years.” His Theory of “Relational
Cycles of Solar Activity” accounts for its effects and those of other solar
cycles.
He is not the first scientist to
recognize the relationship of diminished sunspot activity and cooling cycles,
but he is the first to have synthesized the earlier work of others who made
comparable observations. His Relational Cycles theory, however, is more specific
than preceding ones, pegging the arrival of significant global cold climate to
begin as early as 2024 or as late as 2036. “My math says 2031” says
Casey.
Casey’s book is a prediction of a
coming ice age that will have devastating effects for all life on Earth, but my
readers know I have been writing about this for several years based on Robert W.
Felix’s book, “Not By Fire, But By Ice” ($15.95, Sugarhouse
Publishing, Bellevue, WA). I have frequently referenced his website http://iceagenow.info, for its daily updates on
cold weather events, records established and broken, and reports on volcanic and
earthquake activity around the world.
Before I proceed, the reader should
contemplate the fact that not one single child entering or returning to school
this year has ever lived in a period of “global warming.” The cooling cycle
began around 1997.
You do not need to be a meteorologist
to know nothing humans do affects or alters the weather. The claim that
“greenhouse gases” such as carbon dioxide are making the Earth warmer is false.
We have been experiencing this as the
Earth has cooled, along with increased volcanic activity and earthquakes, and
yet on September 23rd the
United Nations will hold a “Climate Change Summit” that will be attended by more
than a hundred of the world’s presidents and prime ministers. They will continue
the greatest international scientific fraud ever
perpetrated.
Despite the cooling cycle that
is occurring and which will grow in intensity, the U.S. government has devoted
billions to global warming research and, as Casey notes, “not one research
dollar has been dedicated to the science and planning needed for the United
Sates to be prepared for the only climate change that we can expect—a long and
potentially dangerous cold climate!”
The U.S. is not taking the steps
necessary for the cold that is coming. It has not only failed to encourage the
use of our multi-generational reserves of coal, the Obama administration has
declared “war” on it, putting several hundred plants out of business, reducing
the amount of electricity the nation needs now and will require. Power plants
and refineries cannot be built overnight and the lack of them will severely
impact our lives and the economy.
Despite thousands of miles of
pipelines that safely distribute oil and natural gas, Obama has refused to
permit a new one, Keystone XL, for oil to be shipped to gulf state refineries
from Canada. Railroad cars needed to transport food crops in a timely manner are
being diverted to transport oil. No new nuclear plants are being built on a
scale that will be needed. The “grid” that distributes electricity nationwide is
in vital need of repair and expansion.
Cold weather will reduce the amount of
crops needed to feed the nation’s human population and the stocks of cattle,
pigs, sheep, and chickens upon which we depend. This will happen here and
worldwide. Famine will be rampant. In countless ways ours and worldwide
societies that depend on all manner of technology will be impacted.
Nations and people will fail to
prepare for what is coming because (1) they have been deceived by the global
warming hoax and (2) we will be leaving behind one of the longest climate cycles
other than an ice age, the interglacial warm period. Casey notes that “For the
past 11,000 years, we have been living in one of these rare interglacial
periods, called the Holocene warm period.”
What we call civilization is the
result of the Holocene warm period and, without it, civilization and a global
population nearing or surpassing eight billion will be largely decimated as the
next, entirely predictable, ice age occurs.
© Alan Caruba, 2014