Will it be Global Cooling Again?

Back in the 70′s, it was like this…

“OMG, the Earth is going to cool, and we’re all going to dieeeeee!”

Then, it was AGW, (until just recently).

“OMG, the Earth is going to get too hot, and we’re all going to dieeeeee!”

The solution for both scenarios was to limit our lifestyles, forget about capitalism, and let the government dictate every aspect of our lives.

Obviously, we didn’t freeze in the 70′s, and he we haven’t roasted recently. In fact, more and more evidence is emerging that the climate alarmists have been lying, or at the very least, wrong for all this time. Then, there was record cold all last winter, with most areas of the northern hemisphere having the coldest/snowiest winter for decades. Over the winter, the alarmists tried to blame the cold on global warming, but most people laughed that off.

Did I mention ClimateGate?

Now, the mantra is “Climate Change™.” Using this term, the alarmists can now blame any weather related idiosyncrasy on human activity (i.e., creating plant food). For example…

• If it’s hot… it’s “Climate Change™!” We must cut plant food emissions, bankrupt the world economy, submit all human activity to government control, and make the Goracle a billionaire.
• If it’s cold…it’s “Climate Change™!” We must cut plant food emissions, bankrupt the world economy, submit all human activity to government control, and make the Goracle a billionaire.
• If it rains/snows too much…it’s “Climate Change™!” We must cut plant food emissions, bankrupt the world economy, submit all human activity to government control, and make the Goracle a billionaire.
• If it’s too dry…it’s “Climate Change™!” We must cut plant food emissions, bankrupt the world economy, submit all human activity to government control, and make the Goracle a billionaire.

Get the point?

Well, recent reports are suggesting that the world is going to go through one of it’s regular cooling cycles. For more, here is an article from Climate Depot.

CHICAGO – A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun.

Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook’s warning came in the form of a new scientific paper he presented to the 4th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago on May 16, 2010. Dr. Easterbrook is an Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications. Easterbrook’s full resume is here.

Dr. Easterbrook joins many other scientists, peer-reviewed research and scientific societies warning of a coming global cooling. Easterbrook is presenting his findings alongside other man-made global warming skeptics at the three day conference in Chicago.

Dr. Easterbrook’s key excerpts:

That global warming is over, at least for a few decades, might seem to be a relief. However, the bad news is that global cooling is even more harmful to humans than global warming and a cause for even greater concern because:

1. A recent study showed that twice as many people are killed by extreme cold than by extreme heat.

2. Global cooling will have an adverse effect on food production because of shorter growing seasons, cooler growing seasons, and bad weather during harvest seasons. This is already happening in the Midwestern U.S., China, India, and other places in the world. Hardest hit will be third world countries where millions are already near starvation levels.

3. Increase in per capita energy demands, especially for heating.

4. Decrease in the ability to cope with problems related to the population explosion. World population is projected to reach more than 9 billion by 2050, an increase of 50%. This means a substantial increase in demand for food and energy at a time when both are decreasing because of the cooling climate.

CONCLUSIONS:

Numerous, abrupt, short-lived warming and cooling episodes, much more intense than recent warming/cooling, occurred during the last Ice Age, none of which could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2. .

Climate changes in the geologic record show a regular pattern of alternate warming and cooling with a 25-30 year period for the past 500 years.

Strong correlation between solar changes, the PDO, glacier advance and retreat, and global climate allow us to project a consistent pattern into the future.

Strong correlation between solar changes, the PDO, glacier advance and retreat, and global climate allow us to project a consistent pattern into the future.

Projected cooling for the next several decades is based on past PDO patterns for the past century and temperature patterns for the past 500 years. Three possible scenarios are shown: (1) global cooling similar to the global cooling of 1945 to 1977, (2) global cooling similar to the cool period from 1880 to 1915, and (3) global cooling similar to the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1820.

Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been.

I hope that this does not happen, obviously, but the statistics show it has happened regularly in the past. When one looks at the data, it is clear. The fun part will be to see what the alarmists say about this. As long as people have free access to information, they’re going to see that the alarmists have been lying for decades, and the actual goal is redistribution of wealth and control.

Many of the regular readers here will know that I claim that modern “progressivism” is a combination of Marxism, Fascism, and the original “progressive” movement of the late 19^th , and early 20^th centuries. From the Marxist and Fascist “parents,” our “progressives” use external threats to justify the taking of freedoms. In most previous cases, wars were used for power grabs. Now, our “progressives” are using the bogeyman of “Climate Change” to justify altering the arrangement between the individual and the state. Essentially, no matter what happens with the climate, they will use it as a justification to limit our rights and freedoms.

Don’t fall for it.