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Global Cooling Is Coming and Beware the Big Chill
Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, Dr. Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University
and author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.
“Rather than global warming at a rate of 1 F per decade, records of past natural cycles indicate there may be global cooling for the first few decades of the 21st century to about 2030,” said Easterbrook, speaking on a scientific panel discussion with other climatologists. This, he says, will likely be followed by “global warming from about 2030 to 2060,” which will then be followed by another cooling spell from 2060 to 2090.
4 Comments on "Global Cooling Is Coming and Beware the Big Chill"
SilentRunning on Thu, 20th May 2010 6:04 pm
Yawn – more Climate disinformation from Faux News, designed to “muddle the issue”
Easterbrook’s analysis seems to be based entirely upon past climate behavior. Where his analysis falls down is that past climate behavior was not driven by humans dumping billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year.
I’ll wager that Easterbrook receives funding from ExxonMobile.
hoangkybactien on Thu, 20th May 2010 10:55 pm
The article was written probably by those who graduated from Brainwashing & Disinformation Institute of Propagation Arts!
Education for truthfulness or for money?
May those Ph.D. have enough courage to preserve their little remaining consciense before it be washed away by unsweated money.
alochin on Thu, 20th May 2010 11:40 pm
The current phase of cooling is actually confirming human influence on the climate.
After 9/11, during the 3 days while the planes were grounded, the day-night temperature gradient increased, revealing to climatologist what we call now global dimming, which is due to particulate pollution.
After the financial crisis, there was an unprecedented reduction in oil consumption, as shown by the dramatic drop in oil prices (from $140 to below $40). We can expect that the level of particulate pollution also decreased. On the long term, that would produce warmer summers and colder winters. Although nobody really took notice of some warm spells in the past 2 summers, the record cold spells we had in the winters were well noticed, and used to “disproof” climate change.
These cold winters actually confirm anthropogenic climate change.
I agree with the previous comments, this is right wing propaganda. I’d like to know who were the “other climatologists” listening to Dr Easterbrook, and what they thought of his theory.
Dan Miller on Fri, 21st May 2010 6:22 am
Dr. Easterbrook is probably wrong in his prediction of global cooling, and he is a well known global warming denialist. Nonetheless, he has emphasized something interesting – the solar cycle – which should be given greater attention. Over the past number of years we have entered into a solar cycle of greatly reduced sunspots, which normally should be reflected by a measurable cooling on earth. Instead, all the data points to a continuously warming earth over the past decade despite the solar cycle (see NASA’s recent findings that the past decade has been the warmest on record). If the earth is continuing to warm despite the present low point in the solar cycle (and it is probably warming due to GHG gases), then it is worrisome to think what will happen when the solar cycle moves forward and sunspot activity once again rebounds.