The text says this:
The general opinion of the SSRC scientists is that it could begin even sooner within 3 years with the next solar cycle 24. What we are saying today is that my own research and that of the other scientists at the SSRC
So who are these scientists? Any research center that's worth it's salt will brag about it's associates, with full resumes.
The text also says:
John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes
Ok. But I found this at Earthfiles.com:
Dr. Hathaway is now one of the top solar astrophysicists in the world. He was surprised last week in the beginning of January 2008, to learn that his own solar physics research was being used by a non-scientist named John Casey in an Orlando, Florida company calling itself “Space and Science Research Center.” SSRC recently distributed an alarming press release on the internet entitled “Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change.” The press release warned there will be a global food shortage in the next Solar Cycle 25 (approximately 2018 - 2029).
[question from earthfiles.com] THAT WILL BE CALLED SOLAR CYCLE 25 AND THERE HAS BEEN A PRESS RELEASE THAT HAS BEEN CIRCULATING ON THE WEB FOR THE LAST WEEK OR SO IN 2008 FROM AN ORGANIZATION CALLED “SPACE AND SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER (SSRC) ” IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA. THE DIRECTOR IS JOHN CASEY. THEY HAVE RELEASED INFORMATION SAYING THEY EXPECT SOLAR CYCLE 25 TO BE SO LOW IN SUNSPOTS THAT IT WILL PLUNGE THE EARTH INTO A COOLING PERIOD THAT COULD JEOPARDIZE FOOD CROPS GLOBALLY. COULD YOU COMMENT ON HIS HYPOTHESIS?
[answer] I find it highly doubtful. First of all, he bases his prediction for a small Cycle 25 on my own work. I’m well familiar with my own work! This was work where we had looked at the drift rate of sunspots on the sun and from that inferred flows that contribute to how the sun makes sunspot cycles. That flow was particularly slow during this last Cycle 23 – in fact, slower than any of the previous 12 cycles.
I don't have any doubt that this guy Casey is some kind of crank. He's quoting research from this guy Hathaway, a genuine Astrophysicist PhD, but Hathaway apparently doesn't know who Casey is. If Casey had been capable of doing this kind of work independently, and had published anything, Hathaway would probably have his phone number in his cell phone. If they were doing research in something this related, they would no doubt have communicated long ago.
This "Space and Science Research Center" sounds like the Discovery Institute that's trying to sell Intelligent Design. The DI has PR flacks, talk radio guys and lawyers, but not a single staff scientist doing work at the institute. They do however manage to raise lots of donation money from rich conservatives that don't know any better.
I'd love for Global Warming to be shown to be BS, and discoveries that the Sun controls our climate rather than humans. But this SSRC press release is "Junk Science" in the truest sense of the term.
Except for the fact that we should by now be well into a period of increasing sunspots.
And day after day, the sun shows up blank - no sunspots at all. I know. I check.