(reprinted from icecap.us) In a Geological Society of America
abstract, Dr. Don Easterbrook, Professor of Geology at Western
Washington University, presents data showing that the global
warming cycle from 1977 to 1998 is now over and we have entered
into a new global cooling period that should last for the next
three decades. He also suggests that since the IPCC climate
models are now so far off from what is actually happening that
their projections for both this decade and century must be
considered highly unreliable. The Pacific Ocean has a warm
temperature mode and a cool temperature mode and in the past
century has switched back forth between these two modes every
25-30 years (known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO).
In 1977 the Pacific abruptly shifted from its cool mode (where
it had been since about 1945) into its warm mode, and this
initiated global warming from 1977 to 1998. The correlation
between the PDO and global climate is well established. The
announcement by NASA�s Jet Propulsion Labo