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Easterbrook, Don

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 Credentials 

 Background

Don Easterbrook is a Professor Emeritus of Glacial Geology and Environmental and Engineering Geology at Western Washington University.

Easterbrook is a regular speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change.

Stance on Climate Change

“We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance.” [2]

Key Quotes

“If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures should cool slightly until about 2035, then warm about 0.5°C from ~2035 to ~2065, and cool slightly until 2100. The total increase in global warming for the century should be ~0.3 °C, rather than the catastrophic warming of 3-6°C (4-11°F) predicted by the IPCC.” [3]

Key Deeds

July 7 - 9, 2014

Don Easterbrook was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas, Nevada. [7]

DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartland's ICCC9, which can be found here.

May 21 - 23, 2012

Easterbrook was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).

DeSmogBlogresearched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC7 and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothersand the conservative Scaife family foundations.

May, 2010

Spoke at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change on “The Looming Threat of Global Cooling”:

March, 2009

Spoke at the Heartland Institute's Second International Conference on Climate Change. His presentation was titled “'Global Warming' Is Over: Geologic, Oceanographic, and Solar Evidence for Global Cooling in the ComingDecades.” [4]

March, 2008

Easterbrook is listed as a signatory to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change which declares that global warming is “not a global crisis.”

The Declaration was introduced at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

Dec 20, 2007

Easterbrook's name appears on a Submission from the Lavoisier Group to the Garnaut Climate Change Review (PDF).

March, 2007

Easterbrook was interviewed in a New York Times piece titled “From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype” where he is presented as a professor of Geology who “cited 'inaccuracies' in 'An Inconvenient Truth'.” The article mentions other climate change skeptics including Richard Lindzen, Bjørn Lomborg, Roy Spencer, and Benny J. Peiser.

Easterbrook is described as having “no political axe to grind,” and as being a “rank-and-file” scientist, despite his skeptical views on global warming which put him at odds with the scientific majority.

 Affiliations 

 Publications

Easterbrook's profile at the Department of Geology of Western Washington Universityincludes the following list of paperson the topic of “Global Climate Change, Global Warming” (PDFs are available here):

Sample Publications

 Resources

  1. “Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) Release Names of over 30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Hypothesis,” Street Insider, May 19, 2008. Republished by Warming Scare Tactics. Accessed December 6, 2011.
  2. “Recent Global Cooling: Summary” (PDF), by Don Easterbrook.
  3. “The Cause of Global Warming and Predictions for the Coming Century,” Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 235.
  4. “Don Easterbrook,” SourceWatch profile.
  5. ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Don Easterbrook.
  6. “Don Easterbrook,” Wikipedia.
  7. “Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,” DeSmogBlog, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.

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http://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032016/climate-change-deniers-clean-power-plan-court-of-appeals

The latest friends-of-the-court brief is signed by a familiar coterie of climate change skeptics, including S. Fred Singer, one of global warming's most notorious deniers.

He and others who signed the brief, including Joseph S. D'Aleo, a former Weather Channel meteorologist, have connections to The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank with ties to fossil fuel interests, including David and Charles Koch. Heartland has long championed efforts to obfuscate the science of global warming.

"What we're trying to do is introduce reality into the picture and hopefully it gets the judges to push back and wait to get more information," D'Aleo said. He added the rules could hamstring the economy while saddling the poor with higher energy costs.

Others, like Theodore R. Eck, have directly worked at fossil fuel companies. According to his qualifications listed in the brief, Eck is a former chief economist of Amoco Corp. and Exxon Venezuela, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Gas Technology Institute and Energy Intelligence Group. Craig D. Idso, a former director of environmental science at coal company Peabody Energy, is founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which claims rising carbon dioxide levels will benefit the planet by increasing crop yields—a long-discredited argument.

Still others, like Don J. Easterbrook, have been called on to testify against global warming in legislative proceedings. In 2013, Easterbrook told a Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee in Washington State that "global warming ended in 1998."

But the main arguments are not legalistic, but familiar canards that have been continually and widely rejected by mainstream science. Key among their reasoning is that the EPA's "three lines of evidence" in support of the Clean Power Plan have been "definitively invalidated by real world empirical temperature data" and that higher carbon dioxide emissions "would yield only benefits."

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Don Easterbrook

Don J. Easterbrook is a geology professor emeritus at Western Washington University. From that perspective, he is skeptical of global warming. He has criticized Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth[1] and IPCC temperature projections[2] and has appeared on the Headline News program Glenn Beck[3] and in the New York Times[1] as a global warming skeptic.

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Easterbrook gave a speech at the 2006 Geological Society of America annual meeting, in which he stated:

"If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures should cool slightly until about 2035, then warm about 0.5°C from ~2035 to ~2065, and cool slightly until 2100. The total increase in global warming for the century should be ~0.3 °C, rather than the catastrophic warming of 3-6°C (4-11°F) predicted by the IPCC."[2]

While IPCC was predicting global warming, Easterbrook (2001) predicted three decades of cooling due to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) shifting from its warm to cool phase.[4] He correlated PDO with climatic changes over the last 500 years.[5]

"The IPCC has predicted a global temperature increase of 0.6°C (1°F) by 2011 and 1.2°C (2°F) by 2038, whereas Easterbrook (2001) predicted the beginning of global cooling by 2007 (± 3 yrs) and cooling of about 0.3–0.5°C by 2040."

He presented his research on "Glacier fluctuations, global climate change, and ocean temperature changes."[6] at the International Conference on Climate Change NY, 2009. In a summary of this work, [7] Easterbrook wrote: "We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance."

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Easterbrook#cite_ref-NYT_0-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Easterbrook#cite_ref-NYT_0-1) New York Times - From a Rapt Audience: a Call to Cool the Hype
  2. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Easterbrook#cite_ref-GSA_1-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Easterbrook#cite_ref-GSA_1-1) The Cause of Global Warming and Predictions for the Coming Century
  3. ^ MediaMatters.org
  4. ^ Easterbrook, D.J., 2001, The next 25 years: global warming or global cooling? Geologic and oceanographic evidence for cyclical climatic oscillations: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 33, p. 253.
  5. ^ Easterbrook, D.J., 2008, Correlation of climatic and solar variations over the past 500 years and predicting global climate changes from recurring climate cycles: International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway.
  6. ^ Easterbrook, Don J. Glacier fluctuations, global climate change, and ocean temperature changes, International Conference on Climate Change NY, 2009
  7. ^ RECENT GLOBAL COOLING: SUMMARY, by Don Easterbrook, n.d.

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