Global Warmingsters Chill Out

This is rich. I don't pay much attention to the whole global warming crowd. I'm sure some will say, My Gawd, Dan, what are you crazy? Don't you realize we are only a decade or so away from the world boiling away its glaciers and devastating all of mankind?

Oh well ... I figure if I can live through the ice age of the eighties, I might have a shot at surviving global warming, too.

While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling. Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."

Brrrrrrrrr!!

Comments

[Theo]

It's a shame Will is lying by omission and stacking the deck.

http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/2006/04/no-conflict-here-just-scientists-doing.html

Still, you're hopefully right wrt us surviving it all.

[Rich Incognito]

Of course, if George Will was an honest man, he would have noted that his partial quote from the Science article ("Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages" - Science Vol. 194, Dec. 10, 1976) does not accurately convey what the scientists wrote. The actual article very explicit states that 1) the scientists were looking at earth orbital patterns, 2) that their conclusions were based entirely on NATURAL components of climate change, NOT the "anthropogenic effects as those due to the burning of fossil fuels," and 3) that "the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is toward extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate."

In other words, NO scientists were forecasting an imminent ice age.

While it is true that a number of JOURNALISTS were making such claims, it is not true that scientists were.

Thus, Will's accusation that journalists are conducting a "misinformation campaign" is accurate in so much as he is talking about himself.

[dontbelievethetruth]

1. He never said that article forcasted an imminent ice age
2. Science Digest did forecast an imminent ice age
3. You took the phrase "misinformation campaign" out of context. That was the term ABC used to describe people like him. He did, however, refer to their work as "crusading journalism." Details...