About John L. Casey

Mr. Casey’s professional military, aerospace, and climate science career spans over 55 years, including important work in the US space program, climatology, and seismology. He is best known for his work since 2007 in climate research, where he asserted that the Sun is the primary driver of climate change on Earth and that solar cycles are strongly correlated with the most powerful earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. His research culminated in the development of The Theory of Relational Cycles of Solar Activity (RC Theory). The peer-reviewed paper for the RC Theory posits that climate change, driven primarily by solar activity, can be reliably modeled to predict future periods of climate variation, including both global cooling and global warming. His research led him to become a prominent critic of the greenhouse gas theory and manmade global warming.

Following his departure from the Army, he was hired as a Senior Field Engineer on the Space Shuttle program, while an employee of the then Martin Marietta Corp. In addition, during his time with Martin, he had important positions involving the resolution of difficult science and engineering problems on multi-billion-dollar weapon systems.

His decades of experience also include formal testimony and periodic consulting work for the US House of Representatives Science Committee. He was heavily involved with the Committee and NASA Headquarters after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. On several occasions, he assisted the White House and National Security Council on important matters such as the selection of the NASA Administrator, the assessment of a foreign country’s space launch capability, and the development of the US national space policy.

Much of his career was involved with consulting for or the start-up of high-tech companies, especially in the field of commercial space. One of his companies, JLC Aerospace, for example, was the global leader in the design of commercial spaceports.