Oh-Oh.
“Former
space shuttle engineer, NASA consultant, and climatologist John L. Casey is warning that a radical shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and
other environmentalists have it wrong.”
That
statement is from an article by Clayton B. Reid in the October edition of
Newsmax magazine. The earth, Casey says,
is cooling, and cooling fast. And unless the scientific community and political
leaders act soon, cold, dark days are ahead. In his new book “Dark Winter: How
the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell”, Casey warns that the earth is rapidly
growing colder due to diminished solar activity. In fact, “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 in the near
future.
Casey
states, “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.”
For over a decade now, he claims, 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.”
Casey
believes that the real driver of global climate is solar activity, namely
sunspots. He says they correspond to shifts in global temperature with a greater than 90% accuracy. Several Russian scientists and astrophysicists
also agree with this view that the earth
is cooling; and at least one argues that a new mini ice age has begun.
Casey
says that climate-change theorists have
simply wedded themselves to the wrong theory, namely, that global
temperatures respond in a significant way to the level of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere. “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 be absolutely no cooling, much less a pause. And yet we’ve
been cooling for years now.”
Of
course, if “Dark Winter” is right,
that means the nation is busily preparing for the wrong calamity.
So far,
according to the article, “all of Casey’s predictions have come true.”
This is
history’s biggest opportunity cost. We will soon be paying billions of dollars
to ‘lessen’ the affects of ‘global warming’. Moreover, we will
impoverish ourselves, or at the very least drastically degrade the quality of
our lives by not utilizing the vast quantities of coal, oil, gas etc. available
to us. Therefore there will be fewer jobs available for people- and much higher
energy bills. Transportation costs will soar needlessly, and consequently the
cost of virtually all goods sold will as well, becoming a huge drag on the
economy. Some folks will have to cut back on buying goods they otherwise could
have afforded, some will cut back on or eliminate savings. Some will go deeper
into debt. There will be less money available, then, for loans and investment,
etc.
Over
and above all of this, it is likely
that not only was all of this privation unnecessary, but that it will have
actually worsened the crisis we do
face. There is a word for this lose-lose-lose proposition.
Chilling.
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