Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell

Dark Winter, by John L. Casey

The author does an excellent job of presenting his claim that our earth is about to enter a global cooling period rather than global warming. He spurns the widely touted beliefs in man-made climate change, rejects the poor science that encourages belief in global warming, and criticizes government efforts to create and mandate expensive programs for stopping or offsetting global warming. In a well-researched book, written for everyday readers, Casey makes it clear the sun is responsible for climate-change cycles. Human activities can be considered negligible. He reviews past and present studies and historical records that document the relationship between sun activity and our terrestrial weather. His mission is to warn fellow Americans, and the world as well, that a climate change is indeed coming. He shows, however, that it is going to be a potentially disastrous global cooling change. To prepare for global warming is to ignore a much more serious and more imminent event. The 164-page book includes 102 pages of appendices, nine pages of notes with references to scientific reports and a useful five page glossary. Casey has been severely criticized for his book and for his efforts to get appropriate attention to the difficulties he forecasts, and in his writing he occasionally talks back with sardonic comments. He also labels global-warming and the large sums of money expended on it scientific fraud. Such comments may be detrimental to the book, but many readers will enjoy them. This reviewer rates the relatively short book at five stars, in part because of its important message. Read more