Originally posted on 02/04/2014:

Monday, February 3rd, 2014 | Posted by Longboat Key News
Maybe, just maybe, we’re getting cooler

TOM BURGUM
Staff Columnist
burgum@lbknews.com
A column in Tuesday’s Sarasota Herald Tribune wrote of a meeting of the, “biggest bankers and insurance companies calling for massive investments in clean energy lest we − and they − pay in massive damages from climate change.” Our president has repeatedly promised to close down as much of the American energy sector as possible to combat, what else, climate change. On Tuesday night, Mr. Obama opined that, “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”
I beg to disagree: the debate isn’t settled.
Today, of course, we talk about climate change rather than global warming, a change necessitated by the failure of the global temperature to increase over the past decade. The climate is, of course, changing as it has done throughout the history of the planet but the change might not lead to global warming.
Marc Morano, of Climate Depot, lists a growing number of scientists who are talking of global cooling rather than global warming and this column is based on his compilation. Most recently, Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory announced: “We could be in for a cooling period that last 200-250 years.”
Danish Solar Scientist Svensmark declared “global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning . . . Enjoy global warming while it lasts.”
Prominent geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook warned “global cooling is almost a slam dunk” for up to 30 years or more.”
Most recently, Professor Judith Curry, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta stated: “Attention in the public debate seems to be moving away from the 15-17 year pause to the cooling since 2002 . . . this shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so . . . “
Despite the seemingly endless claims that the “science is settled” the warnings of a coming serious cooling trend have been around since 2008. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the news reports of this development, the main stream media haven’t gotten around to mentioning it.
Anastasios Tsonis, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee believes we are entering a period of global cooling. He published a peer-reviewed paper in January 2010 that held the world goes through periods of warming and cooling that tend to last thirty years and he believes we are now in a period of cooling that could last up to fifty years. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov of the Russian Academy of Science believes “We can expect the onset of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055.
Professor Cliff Ollier of the School of Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Western Australia, not only believes that a cooling period is coming, he took on Al Gore and his acolytes head on. In a paper presented in Poznan Poland, he credited the sun as the major control of climate, not greenhouse gasses. Ollier criticized recent projects of global warming because the projections are too centered on computer models.
Global warming of the past 30 year is over, at least according to Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications in an address to the Washington Policymakers in Seattle, Washington, said: “The shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) . . . has significant implications for the future and indicates that the IPCC climate models were wrong in their prediction of global temperatures soaring 1 degree per decade for the rest of the century.”
According to Morano, Mexican scientist, Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics in Mexico City, “predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a ‘little ice age’ which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.” Herrera also called the prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) incorrect “because they are only based on mathematical models and presented results and scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” Canadian Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball believes we are facing a global cooling crisis while United Kingdom Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn believes that worrying about CO2 is irrelevant as the temperature will continue to decline well beyond 2014.
Geophysicist Dr. Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut, and staff physicist at MIT, dissented from global warming fears, and warned of a coming ice age: “The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue.”
Then Chapman warned, “All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilization may be at stake.”
Chapman’s warning almost makes one hope that Gore and his crowd are right, but we don’t know. The science certainly isn’t settled and maybe, just maybe, temperatures are headed down, not up.

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