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July 28th, 2011 by


Leading Scientist Predicts Another Ice Age
As Britain prepares to shiver for at least another month, a leading scientist today predicted that the world is heading for another Ice Age.  Millions of brassed off Brits pining for warmth will have to endure freezing temperatures and biting winds until May, says this article by Giles Sheldrick.
Coldest in more than 200 years
As if the outlook wasn’t bleak enough already, meteorologists believe the shivering start to 2013 has been the coldest in more than 200 years.   More worryingly, the combination of sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow experienced across much of the country recently could be the prelude to a new Ice Age that will begin next year and last for 200 years.
Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, of the St Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, painted the Doomsday scenario saying the recent inclement weather simply proved we were heading towards a frozen planet.    Dr Abdussamatov believes Earth was on an “unavoidable advance towards a deep temperature drop”. The last big freeze, known as the Little Ice Age, was between 1650 and 1850.
During that time “all channels in the Netherlands were frozen, glaciers were on the advance in Greenland and people were forced to leave their settlements, inhabited for several centuries,” said Abdussamatov.
Humanity has always prospered during warm periods and suffered during cold ones -   “The Thames river in London and Seine in Paris were frozen over every year. Humanity has always been prospering during the warm periods and suffering during the cold ones. The climate has never been and will never be stable.”
The GLOBAL CLIMATE Status Report (GCSR)
The following is from the Special inaugural letter from the Editor of the GCSR,

Six years ago I was fortunate enough to have what is called a “Eureka!” moment. This is one of the rarest events in one’s life when a sudden cascade of elements of knowledge come together in an instant, resulting in a profound and previously unknown understanding on some matter of great importance. 

For me, this occurred at 2PM on April 26, 2007. I had been spending weeks in solar physics research as part of a book I was planning to write. The book had nothing to do with climate change. At that time and on that day, however, I realized that a particular two hundred year cycle of the Sun was about to reverse from its long global warming phase to that of a deep and potentially dangerous cold phase. That new found wisdom changed my life’s course. It has since led to the formation of the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC) and my efforts to warn the American people and our leaders that a new and potentially dangerous cold climate era was starting. This quest is of course in stark contrast to what we have been led to believe by the United Nations, former Vice President Al Gore, powerful environmental organizations, special interests, the mainstream media, and the administration of President Barack Obama. 

After making the announcement of my research findings in a highly public manner in early 2007, I was as expected, criticized, ridiculed, slandered, and/ or just plain ignored by virtually all sectors of the political spectrum, the media, and the scientific community. This reaction is well known in the history of science when an unknown researcher outside the community confronts existing dogma. My press release about my research could not have come at a worse time. During 2007 and 2008, both US presidential candidates were trying to garner every vote in what was expected to be another tight election. Accordingly, they both were saying manmade global warming was a real threat and they were going to fix it. That period was also the apex of the fever of manmade climate change hysteria. Al Gore and Dr. Rajendra Pachauri at the UN were receiving the Nobel Prize for their efforts in creating “awareness” about the nature of global warming and man’s apparent ability to affect climate change. My message saying that the Sun and not mankind ran climate change, that global warming was ending, and that we were about to enter decades of record cold weather, was unwelcome information that absolutely no one, including many former ‘friends’ wanted to hear. 

Since then, fortunately, much has changed. Other researchers are now going public saying what I had. The work of past researchers who had already made the same discovery about the Sun but whose work was suppressed or covered up is finally seeing the light of day. The general public’s skepticism about global warming being caused by mankind is growing, as is the distrust of anything coming from our federal government on climate issues. The “Climategate” scandal has shown that a group of leading scientists behind the UN’s reports on climate had manipulated, falsified, or hid the real data on what was happening with the climate. Then there are the gallant knights, fighting for climate truth and exposing the fraud of manmade climate change, like Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Marc Morano, Dr. Roy Spencer, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., Dr. John Christy, Joseph D’Aleo, John Coleman, Alan Caruba, Tim Ball, the Heartland Institute, and many others too numerous to list here, who have fought the ongoing battle against the ‘warmists.’ 

The new group to which I belong, however, are telling a different story. Not the one about the pros and cons of manmade climate change, but one about the new climate reality. Our discussion is about the Sun-caused new cold climate era called a “solar hibernation,” and the urgent need to prepare for it. Also unknown to 
most is the associated increased risk from record earthquakes and volcanoes which are prevalent during these record cold eras. I have even tried to get my allies in the fight against manmade climate change to stop the fight all together and instead focus on the far more important rapidly approaching cold climate. This group that I am part of includes leading researchers and supporters around the world like the venerable David Archibald from Australia, Dr. H. Abdussamatov from Russia, Dr. Boris Komitov from Bulgaria, Dr. Ole Humlum from Norway. Others are, Dr. Dong Choi (Australia), Dr. Fumio Tsunoda (Japan), Dr. Masashi Hayakawa (Japan), Dr. Giovanni Gregori (Italy), Dr. N.Venktanathan(India) , Dr. Arun Bapat (India), Valentino Straser (Italy), Bruce Leybourne (USA), Dr. Zanghao Shou (USA), Dr. Robert Williscroft (USA), Jason Williscroft (USA), former Chairman of the House of Representatives Science Committee, Robert Walker (USA), Stephen Foley (USA), Dr. Rich Swier (USA), Carole Hemingway (USA), and Robert Felix (USA, and author of “Not by Fire but by Ice”), among the many. 

NASA: the Solar Hibernation or Grand Minimum

Significantly, in 2011, NASA, the National Solar Observatory and the US Air Force also announced that the Sun is going into a “solar hibernation” or “grand minimum” like that which I and a few others had predicted. It is this change in the Sun that has ended global warming and is bringing in the next cold climate. Regrettably, this historic and ominous change in the Sun has yet to make it to the front page or the evening news in terms of what impacts it may cause in all of our lives. 

Though this new cold climate era may bring more death and destruction than any past world war, it is still being covered up or ignored by the mainstream media and misunderstood or dismissed by our leaders. 

Still, other positive changes have happened. The SSRC and my work are now among the most quoted on the internet when one searches for information on the next ‘cold climate era.’ Importantly, all my major climate change predictions have come to pass or are in the process of doing so. It is a record of successful climate prediction that even today is still unmatched by NASA, NOAA and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN-IPCC). It is not me however, rather, the Sun that gets the credit. When it comes to predicting climate change, those who follow the greenhouse gas theory are consistently wrong. Those who follow the Sun are consistently right. 

Regardless of this steady progress in the quest for the truth about climate change, a significant percentage of the people still believe that mankind controls climate change and that the Earth is still warming. They are completely unaware of the new cold climate that has begun. Further, the US government and the United Nations are once again pushing for more government controls over our lives under the guise of stopping global warming, even though they know it no longer exists. Government agencies continue to publish misleading and deceptive climate reports to prop up the flawed greenhouse gas theory and the political schemes derived from it that are afoot at both state and federal levels. It is a sad situation we find ourselves in when we can no longer trust our own government to tell us the truth about our climate. Yet, that is our lot. Our people are still not being told the truth! They are unprepared for the new cold era! 

Because the task of spreading the truth about the next climate change is not done, I have decided along with the courageous support of distinguished scientists and staff who have joined with me at the SSRC, to create the Global Climate Status Report (GCSR) and its companion Executive Summary. These regularly published reports will finally provide a single source for all those who want an unvarnished telling of the status of the Earth’s climate. It is the compilation and integration of hundreds of peer reviewed scientific research papers, the latest accurate data on the Earth’s climate from a host of international science agencies and satellites that provide daily surveillance of our planet, as well as the reasoned opinion and research being done at the SSRC. 

There is an obvious character to this first GCSR which is likely to continue in subsequent editions. There is no analysis of the impact of mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions on climate change. Given the past twenty five years of manmade climate change propaganda, it is understandable that this made be a shocking statement. Where this is the one and only theme from climate reports produced by the United Nations, and the US government, as far as the SSRC and numerous other scientists and researchers worldwide are concerned, is simply not one of the parameters that is relevant to measure climate change. This is certainly the case in comparison to the more powerful natural forcing factors that do govern climate change. The straightforward rationale for this decision has unfortunately escaped our leaders, the media, and therefore most people who depend on those two groups for information. 

In essence, man’s contribution to CO2 production on the planet is so utterly small as to be not worthy of consideration. It is dwarfed by the Earth’s natural production of CO2 and has been increasing no thanks to mankind’s industrial activity, for almost 7,000 years. This much larger natural CO2 reservoir is one that man has no control over whatsoever, regardless of how many climate regulations are printed. Further, decades of effort and tens of billions of dollars have been spent by the UN, the US, and other governments trying to make thirty eight or more global climate models respond to man’s CO2. What do we have to show for it? Thirty eight global climate models that don’t work! They have consistently failed to predict climate change past or present. They just don’t work. To be sure, mankind’s CO2 does contribute to the warming of the atmosphere, but it is so miniscule an impact that for major climate change prediction purposes, it is wholly irrelevant. 

Another question must be asked, “What benefits could mankind have received if those wasted tens of billions of dollars for manmade climate change had been allocated to other more worthy pursuits. Could we have cured the host of cancers that afflict and kill so many each year? Could we have had our first lunar colony half way built? Could we have started to fix a major national problem by launching the huge volume of stored radioactive waste from nuclear plants into the Sun? It is of course the ultimate nuclear waste disposal site. Far fetched? Not so. I did the conceptual rocket system design for just such a project twenty years ago along with the brilliant Dr. Henry Kolm. Any random group of citizens off the street could easily come up with better uses for the money thrown at satisfying man’s burning or should I say ‘warming’ ego. More to the point, could we have done valuable and relevant climate research by redirecting even a small portion of that money to study the only climate change that does exist – the next cold climate? 


John Casey President 
Space and Science Research Corporation 



GLOBAL CLIMATE STATUS REPORT (GCSR) 
Edition 1-2013, March 2013. Published by Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC), Orlando, Florida. www.spaceandscience.net   U$12.95. 51p. 

Table of Contents 
1. Special Inaugural Letter from the Editor 
2. The Global Climate Status Report – Introduction 
3. Summary Climate Assessment 
4. Specific Climate Parameter Evaluation 

a. Global Atmospheric Temperature Status and Trends 
b. Global Oceanic Temperature Status and Trends 
c. Polar Temperatures, Glacial and Sea Ice Extent 
d. Sea Levels and Sea Level Rate of Change 
e. Solar Activity Status 

5. Future Climate Change Prediction 
6. Special Note on Catastrophic Geophysical Events (CGE) 
7. The Space and Science Research Corporation and Report Editors 

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Researchers who have predicted a long term solar minimum or ‘solar hibernation’ and/or a new climate change to a period of long lasting cold weather based upon solar activity. 

1. Dr. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov: Russian Academy of Scientists. Head of space research at the Pulkova Observatory, St. Petersburg.
Comment:  RIA Novosti, August 25, 2006: “Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century – when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland – could start in 2012-2105 and reach its peak in 2055-2060Š.He said he believed the future climate change would have very serious consequences and that authorities should start preparing for them todayŠ.”

2.  David Archibald. Summa Development Limited. (Australia).
     From his paper: Archibald, D.C., (2006), Solar Cycles 24 and 25 and predicted climate response, Energy and Environment, Vol.17, No.1.
     Comment from paper:  “Based on a solar maxima of approximately 50 for solar cycles 24 and 25, a global temperature decline of 1.5C is predicted to 2020 equating to the experience of the Dalton Minimum.”

 3. Dr. O.G.Badalyan, and Dr.V.N. Obridko, Institute of Terrestrial Magnestism. Russia, Dr.J.Sykora. Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic.
     From their paper: Balalyan, O.G., V.N. Obridko, and J. Sykora, (2000), Brightness of the coronal green line and prediction for activity cycles 23 and 24, Solar Physics, 199: pp.421-435.
Comment from paper: ” A slow increase in (intensity of coronal green line) in the current cycle 23 permits us to forecast a low-Wolf-number (number of sunspots) cycle 24 with the maximum W~50 at 2010-2011.” (Note: a 50 sunspot level is a Dalton class minimum)

 4. Dr. B. P. Bonev,  Dr. Kaloyan M. Penev, Dr. Stefano Sello.
    From their paper: Bonev, B.P., et. al., (2004), Long term solar variability and the solar cycle in the 21st century, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 605, pp.L81-L84.
Comment from their paper: “Šwe conclude that the present epoch is at the onset of an upcoming local minimum in long term solar variability.”

 5. John L. Casey, President, Space and Science Research Corporation. Orlando, Florida
    From his research report: Casey, John L. (2008), The existence of ‘relational cycles’ of solar activity on a multi-decadal to centennial scale, as significant models of climate change on earth. SSRC Research Report 1-2008 – The RC Theory, www.spaceandscience.net. Comments from the research report:
” As a result of the theory, it can be predicted that the next solar minimum may start within the next 3-14 years, and last 2-3 solar cycles or approximately 22-33 years. ŠIt is estimated that there will be a global temperature drop on average between 1.0 and 1.5 degrees C, if not lower, at least on the scale of the Dalton Minimum. ŠThis forecast next solar minimum will likely be accompanied by the coldest period globally for the past 200 years and as such, has the potential to result in world wide, agricultural, social, and economic disruption.”
 
6. Dr. Peter Harris. Engineer, retired, Queensland, Australia.
From his analysis of glacial and interglacial cycles he concludes: “Šwe can say there is a probability of 94% of imminent global cooling and the beginning of the coming ice age.”
 
7. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera. Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
His comments from his research released in August 2008: “Šin two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts for 60-80 years.”
 
8. Dr’s. Y.T.Hong, H.B. Jiang, T.S. Liu, L.P.Zhou, J.Beer, H.D. Li, X.T.Leng, B.Hong, and X.G. Qin.
From their paper: Response of climate to solar forcing recorded in 6,000-year (isotope) O18 time-series of Chinese peat cellulose. The Holocene 10.1 (2000) pp. 1-7.
The Chinese team of researchers observed “Ša striking correspondence of climate events to nearly all of the apparent solar activity changes.”   In showing O18 isotope measurements were high during the coldest periods they concluded, “If the trend after AD 1950 continuesŠthe next maximum of the peat O18 (and therefore cold maximum) would be expected between about AD 2000 and AD 2050.”
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James Hansen to quit NASA, become full-time climate activist
By John Upton
http://grist.org/news/james-hansen-to-quit-nasa-become-full-time-climate-activist/?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
James Hansen.
It might be hard to imagine how James Hansen could do more to help the climate cause than he’s already done. A well-respected climate scientist, he’s been more outspoken than virtually all of his peers on the need for climate action. He first warned Congress about the threat of global warming way back in 1988, and he’s been sounding the alarm with increasing urgency ever since. During the George W. Bush administration, his outspokenness irritated his superiors, so they tried to muzzle him – an effort that backfired when Hansen went to The New York Times with the story. In 2009, he started getting arrested at climate protests, including protests against the Keystone XL pipeline.
But Hansen wants to do even more. And to do it, he’s quitting his high-profile, influential day job. He will step down tomorrow as the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies after 46 years spent working there.
From The New York Times:
[R]etirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions, for instance, as well as in fighting the development in Canada of a particularly dirty form of oil extracted from tar sands.
“As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,” he said in an interview.
Dr. Hansen had already become an activist in recent years, taking vacation time from NASA to appear at climate protests and allowing himself to be arrested or cited a half-dozen times.
But those activities, going well beyond the usual role of government scientists, had raised eyebrows at NASA headquarters in Washington. “It was becoming clear that there were people in NASA who would be much happier if the ‘sideshow’ would exit,” Dr. Hansen said in an e-mail.
At 72, he said, he feels a moral obligation to step up his activism in his remaining years.
“If we burn even a substantial fraction of the fossil fuels, we guarantee there’s going to be unstoppable changes” in the climate of the earth, he said. “We’re going to leave a situation for young people and future generations that they may have no way to deal with.”
From The Washington Post:
“When the history of our time is written, he’s going to be one of the giants,” [350.org leader and Grist board member Bill] McKibben said in an interview. “If anyone has ever served his country well, it’s Jim Hansen, to work that long in the same shop and to do it under that kind of pressure and scrutiny, and to do it with that kind of faithfulness.”
McKibben sent an e-mail to his group’s supporters Monday night calling Hansen the “patron saint” of his organization, urging them to honor the atmospheric researcher by lobbying against the pipeline aimed at transporting crude oil from Canada’s oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
“Here’s what I hope you’ll do: honor Jim’s lifetime of work by making a public comment to the State Department about Keystone XL and tell them to reject the pipeline,” he wrote in the e-mail.
Though he’s stepping down from NASA, don’t expect to be hearing less from Hansen. You’ll probably be hearing more.John Upton is a science aficionado and green news junkie who tweets, posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants: johnupton@gmail.com.
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Obama’s Signing of Monsanto Protection Act proves he will Betray Everyone Else
Friday, March 29, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews)       The internet has erupted into a fury over Obama’s signing of the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” a rider to a federal appropriations bill that hands Monsanto the power to nullify the decisions of federal courts. If the courts decide that a genetically engineered crop is dangerous to the public or the environment, it can no longer order Monsanto (or any other company) to stop planting the crops. Instead, the law mandates the Secretary of Agriculture to issue permits and deregulation orders that allow the “continued cultivation, commercialization and other specifically enumerated activities” even if a crop is deemed to be causing a plague or unleashing dangerous genetic pollution.
The actual language of the bill is barely-recognizable lawyerspeak, of course, but it’s not difficult to see how it will be interpreted by a federal government which routinely conspires with Monsanto and the biotech industry to sneak GMOs into the food supply. To read the bill language yourself, visit:
… and search for “735.” (Thanks to Anthony Gucciardi for finding this link.)
Activism holds politicians accountable
The backlash against the rider melded the efforts of numerous activist organizations, including Food Democracy Now, the Center for Food Safety, the Institute for Responsible Technology, the Organic Consumers Association and many more. It resulted in hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, protests outside the White House, and tens of millions of people learning the truth about how Obama has betrayed his own support base yet again.
That’s the real political impact of this: Obama’s own actions now prove he will betray progressives and democrats on the issues that matter to them, too. The GMO issue is a super-hot topic on the political left. Anyone who conspires with Monsanto is instantly – and justifiably – branded a “sellout” and a traitor to the People. This is why companies like Kashi, a cereal manufacturer that uses GMOs but doesn’t label its products as containing GMO, is feeling tremendous heat from the GMO labeling boycott efforts. Informed consumers are outright punishing any company, politician or media organization that allies itself with the interests of Monsanto.
That list now clearly includes Obama himself. By signing this into law, he betrayed America and granted Monsanto and the biotech industry unprecedented power over federal courts. He essentially took away the power of the government to halt the continued growing and commercialization of dangerous genetically engineered crops. And he got caught doing so.
There is no excuse for signing the Monsanto Protection Act into law
In the eyes of the foodies, the raw vegans, the organic consumers and even all the hippies, Obama just committed political suicide. The trust he once held with millions of people was destroyed at the stroke of a pen. Trust is difficult to earn and even harder to keep. It can be lost in an instant by willfully betraying the People.
As an instant example of that, imagine what would happen if Natural News announced support for Monsanto and the biotech industry. All the credibility we’ve built up over the last ten years would vanish overnight. We’d be the laughing stock of the internet and would lose all the trust and goodwill we’ve been blessed with over the years. Obama just did essentially that for his own presidency. His own signature testifies to his real loyalties to the biotech industry and GMOs.
He didn’t know what he was signing? Really?
Apologists, of course, say “Obama didn’t know what he was signing.” If so, that’s even worse than consciously signing the Monsanto Protection Act. To sign something into law you haven’t even read is the worst kind of violation of presidential power. It is a clear dereliction of duty and arguably grounds for impeachment. If our nation is going to be bound by laws that presidents ACCIDENTALLY sign, then what kind of nation are we, anyway?
Another excuse, correctly pointed out by Jon Rappoport at Infowars.com, is that Obama signed the law but doesn’t intend to invoke it. This is along the same lines as Obama promising he “doesn’t intend” to murder any Americans using military drones on US. soil, although he reserves the right to do so. He also “doesn’t intend” for Obamacare health insurance rates to skyrocket, but they did.    What people “intend” versus what really happens are very often not the same.
This excuse that Obama “doesn’t intend” to use the law flies in the face of the inconvenient fact that Sen. Roy Blunt actually conspired with Monsanto to write the language of the rider! This bill, in effect, was “linguistically engineered” in the same way that corn crops are genetically engineered. In both cases, there’s a hidden poison waiting inside… coupled with no labelling to disclose the truth to anyone.
Judge Obama on his actions, not his speeches
That brings me back to the success of internet activism in exposing this rider. I’m not sure who deserves the credit for finding this first, but the story spread like wildfire and is still raging through the minds of American voters who are steaming mad about being deceived by Obama over the issue of GMOs.
But what did they expect? Has Obama ever done anything substantial to counteract the rise of corporate power and the erosion of individual liberties in America? At every turn, this is the president who seizes executive power, eviscerates individual liberties, assaults the Bill of Rights, tramples on Congress, expands illegal secret prisons and openly admits to creating “kill lists” naming Americans who should be assassinated each week. Due process is no longer even part of the equation because the Obama administration says, “We’re the good guys.” Trust us to kill who we want without presenting any evidence whatsoever, nor even charging the targeted people with crimes. Can you imagine the outcry from the left if Bush had attempted the exact same thing?
Somehow, Obama has gotten away with all this because he’s a convincing speaker. He’s hypnotic, handsome and sounds believable. He gets people emotionally riled up, and no matter how bad things look in the real world, there’s nothing that another emotion-saturated speech won’t solve, Obama thinks.
But speaking and doing are two different things. Obama is great at the “speaking” part, but he’s a corporatist dictator on the “doing” part. He talks a good game on freedom and abundance but delivers enslavement and poverty. What he says and what he does are polar opposites, making Obama our first official “bipolar President.”
…or perhaps more accurately, our first President suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder where each body part functions as if it were a different person.   Obama’s mouth and vocal chords belong to the People, but his legislative signing hand belongs to Monsanto. His ears belong solely to deep-pocketed donors, and his heart belongs to Satan. Obama is a President who personifies contradiction, hypocrisy and betrayal, and for a great many voters, his signing of the Monsanto Protection Act was one signature too far.

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