Local guy does good - Dr. Don Easterbrook
Dr. Don Easterbrook is a national treasure. He is a Professor Emeritus of Geology at
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
He is outspoken in his views on the climate and, for the last twenty years, he has been spot on with his predictions.
From
CNS News:
Climate Scientist Who Got It Right Predicts 20 More Years of Global Cooling
Dr. Don Easterbrook � a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State who correctly predicted back in 2000 that the Earth was entering a cooling phase � says to expect colder temperatures for at least the next two decades.
Easterbrook�s predictions were �right on the money� seven years before Al Gore and the United Nation�s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for warning that the Earth was facing catastrophic warming caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide, which Gore called a �planetary emergency.�
�When we check their projections against what actually happened in that time interval, they�re not even close. They�re off by a full degree in one decade, which is huge. That�s more than the entire amount of warming we�ve had in the past century. So their models have failed just miserably, nowhere near close. And maybe it�s luck, who knows, but mine have been right on the button,� Easterbrook told CNSNews.com.
�For the next 20 years, I predict global cooling of about 3/10ths of a degree Fahrenheit, as opposed to the one-degree warming predicted by the IPCC,� said Easterbrook, professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University and author of 150 scientific journal articles and 10 books, including �Evidence Based Climate Science,� which was published in 2011. (See Easterbrook coming-century-predictions.pdf)
In contrast, Gore and the IPCC�s computer models predicted �a big increase� in global warming by as much as one degree per decade. But the climate models used by the IPCC have proved to be wrong, with many places in Europe and North America now experiencing record-breaking cold.
Easterbrook noted that his 20-year prediction was the �mildest� one of four possible scenarios, all of which involve lower temperatures, and added that only time will tell whether the Earth continues to cool slightly or plunges into another Little Ice Age as it did between 1650 and 1790.
�There�s no way to tell �til you get there,� he told CNSNews.com. But he lamented the fact that governments worldwide have already spent a trillion dollars fighting the wrong threat.
More at the site -- the next ten years will be interesting to follow. Pitiful about all the money spent chasing a chimera and of course, the people responsible will not be called on it.
Posted by DaveH at February 5, 2014 10:52 AM