WAIT.  ARE WE READING THIS RIGHT? – AT 7:20 P.M. ET:  Wait 'til Al Gore hears about this: 

The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), the leading independent research organization in the United States on the subject of the next climate change, issues today the following warning of imminent crop damage expected to produce food and ethanol shortages for the US and Canada:

Over the next 30 months, global temperatures are expected to make another dramatic drop even greater than that seen during the 2007-2008 period. As the Earth’s current El Nino dissipates, the planet will return to the long term temperature decline brought on by the Sun’s historic reduction in output, the on-going “solar hibernation.” In follow-up to the specific global temperature forecast posted in SSRC Press Release 4-2009, the SSRC advises that in order to return to the long term decline slope from the current El Nino induced high temperatures, a significant global cold weather re-direction must occur.

According to SSRC Director John Casey, “The Earth typically makes adjustments in major temperature spikes within two to three years. In this case as we cool down from El Nino, we are dealing with the combined effects of this planetary thermodynamic normalization and the influence of the more powerful underlying global temperature downturn brought on by the solar hibernation. Both forces will present the first opportunity since the period of Sun-caused global warming period ended to witness obvious harmful agricultural impacts of the new cold climate.

COMMENT:  We are not scientists at Urgent Agenda.  I make no claim to specific scientific expertise.  But isn't it time for a major, and neutral, journalistic inquiry into the competing claims about global warming? 

The Space and Science Research Center is a new body, and appears to be serious.  We'll examine their prediction over the next 30 months.  If it's accurate, it throws into serious question the whole "science" of global warming.  Maybe we should buy overcoats instead.

May 14, 2010