I saw this recent press release from the Space and Science Research Center, which states that global warming has ended and a new cold era has begun. Mr. John Casey, who is the director of the Space and Science Research center made this declaration at a press conference in Florida a week ago. The press release is basically an update of what was released about the theory back in January of 2008.

I have never heard of the Space and Science Research Center until now, but according to their press release, the world's climate warming of the past decades has come to an end based on the 'Relational Cycle Theory' or RC theory.

According to their website, Mr. Casey's original research on his RC theory was peer reviewed. There is a link to a more detailed research doc. report of this theory at the bottom of the research link. It is the first link and has graphs.

In developing this theory, Mr. Casey studied sunspot cycles from 1610 to present. He determined that there exists a family of solar activity cycles that has a direct influence on the earth's climate and found that the cycles correlated strongly to all past major temperature lows. There was a 90-100 year cycle and a 206 year cycle. He estimates that the peak of the current 206-year cycle was between 1986-1987 with a peak range from 1962-2010.

According to this theory.............

--The earth will experience a significant temperature decline beginning between 3-14 years and lasting 2 or 3 solar cycles.

--Global temperature reductions of at least 1 to 1.5 celsius.

--The new climate will produce dangerously cold weather that will result in worldwide, agricultural, social and economic disruption.

What do you make of this?

Vice President Cheney. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

In case you have not heard, the former Associate Deputy Administrator of the EPA and chief advisor on climate to the EPA Administrator accused the Vice President's office of seeking deletions of sections of draft testimony describing health risks from global warming. The testimony, which I blogged about last October White House Denies CDC Testimony was "Watered Down"., was prepared by Dr. Julie Gerberding, who is the head of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Back in October, a CDC official stated that the draft of the testimony was "eviscerated" after the review process.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) insisted that the efforts by Cheney's office last year constituted a "cover-up" and "censorship". Boxer demanded that the EPA Administrator to turn over all documents related to the assessment of CO2 risks or resign, according to the New York Times article.

Marc Morano, a spokesman for James Inhofe (R-OK), who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Environment Committee said the criticism by Boxer was unjustified. Morano noted incidents involving Roy Spencer (NASA) and the Clinton Administration as an example that all administrations edit testimony before it is submitted to Congress. By the way, Mr. Morano has occasionally participated on this blog and maybe we will hear from him again.