I am a “man made global warming” skeptic and I had never heard of John L. Casey until your post. I think you have the guy figured out; see:
http://junkscience.com/blog/2008/01/...h-center-hoax/
Anyone using a name of The Space and Science Research Center needs to be criminally investigated; well anyone except NASA or ESA.
What Casey is doing is taking information from NASA’s Dr. David Hathaway about solar cycle 25 being off the chart to the low side and connecting it to the lack of solar activity in 1645 called the Maunder Minimum which has been related to the mini Ice Age of that time. Also low solar activity has been tied to the Spörer, Dalton and Wolf minimums which seemed to cause colder weather.
If you Google “david hathaway” +”cycle 25” you will find what he is saying about the solar cycle. I have never seen Hathaway tie solar cycles to weather.
Hathaway and others are predicting high solar activity in cycle 24 which we are just starting. Many people are predicting doomsday scenarios in the 2012 time frame. What these people don’t seem to understand is we have been in a period of high solar activity for the past 20 years, and 2012 is only slightly higher.
I do believe we (the earth) will see a cold spell from 2020 that will last 50 to 75 years.

Jim

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