3. 70's: Global cooling -- Ice Age Coming
3. 70's: Global cooling -- Ice Age Coming
While neither scientists nor the public could be sure in the 1970s whether the world was warming or cooling, people were increasingly inclined to believe that global climate was on the move, and in no small way
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The fist Earth Day (1970):
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, (UC Davis) Ecologist on air pollution and global cooling,.
"[i]n ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish."[21] In a 1971 speech, he predicted that: "By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands,
inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ...
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." "Five years is all we have left if we are going to preserve any kind of quality in the world."
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist Earth Day in 1970,
A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
The 1st Earth Day Event - were the speakers focused on Global Warming or Global Cooling?
Rest assured that "Global Warming" wasn't even a part of the environmentalists lexicon at that time.
It was only after the "Global Cooling" scare failed after the "Nuclear Winter" panic never took off after the "Big One" in California became a waste of time did the sellers of fears look towards "Global Warming".
Stephen Schneider - Greenhouse Supersalesman
Firstly, Schneider was not always promoting the idea of Global warming. ... Schneider was warning the world of an impending Global Cooling, leading ...
Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate", Science, vol.173, 9 July 1971, p.138-141 ...
When will the present interglacial end? Nils-Axel Mörner1
Quaternary Research Volume 2, Issue 3, November 1972, Pages 341–349
We are now living under interglacial climatic conditions, the Present Interglacial or Flandrian Interglacial Age. It will certainly be followed by the Future IceAge. The major cold/warm changes seem to have a cyclicity of 10,500 yr.
We have been in the second cycle (characterized by cooler climate) after the Last IceAge for 2200 yr and will continue to be so for another 8300 yr. By analogy with the conditions during the Last Interglacial it is concluded that
this cycle will remain moderately warm. With the end of the third cycle at about 18,800 years AP, the Present Interglacial will end and the First Future Glacial Age begin. Further information about the climatic conditions during the
“cold” cycle 117,700–107,200 y. a. is necessary, however, before a really well-founded prediction can be made.
Weather broadcast for future:? Lakeland Ledger - Dec 29, 1974
“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man." - Club of Rome (1974)
CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather (climatedepot.com)
1974 Shock News: Global Cooling To Kill One Billion People (junkscience.com)
NCAR 1974 : Global Cooling And Extreme Weather Is The New Normal (stevengoddard.wordpress.com)
Ice ages and the thermal equilibrium of the earth, II
DP Adam - Quaternary Research, 1975 - Elsevier
< Nature
Cause and effects of global cooling J Gribbin - Nature, Volume 254, Issue 5495, pp. 14 (1975).- adsabs.harvard.edu
Cited by 11 - Related articles
The nature of the interactions between climate and tectonic processes is strongly debated. It has been proposed that a shift towards a cooler and more erosive ...
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Global cooling? by Damon PE, Kunen SM. 1976 Science
The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? Can We Survive It? (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976). Lowell Ponte
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature.
This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.”
- Stephen Schneider, Back cover endorsement,
“Our climate has swung wildly from severe warming during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s to severe cooling during the 1960s. . . . The cooling is a fact.” - p. 31.
“This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.” —Page xv
The weather conspiracy: the coming of the new ice age : a report Ballantine Books, 1977
A mathematical model for the generation of hourly temperatures.
JE Hansen, DM Driscoll - Journal of Applied Meteorology, 1977 - adsabs.harvard.edu
... Authors: Hansen, James E.; Driscoll, Dennis M. ... The model could be used to determine the effects
of climatic trends, eg, a gradual cooling, on the average length of the growing season, the mean
number of heating/cooling degree days, and other temperature-related parameters .
[not on Hansen's publication list] pdf available
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Before Global Warming There Was Global Cooling April 2, 2006
[PDF] Should We Have Acted Thirty Years Ago to Prevent Global Climate Change? RG Holcombe - INDEPENDENT REVIEW-OAKLAND-, 2006 - ruby.fgcu.edu
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012 January 8th, 2007
Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm
Compiled by John Stokes The Canadian
NASA Scientists Predicted a New Ice Age in 1971 | NewsBusters.org Sep 19, 2007
The 1971 article, discovered this week by Washington resident John ...Effects on the global temperature of large increases in carbon dioxide ...
What 1970s science said about global cooling by John Cook 26 February 2008
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The sky is falling chicken little routine, which is working to create a global government and new taxes on ...
Global Climate Scam » John Holdren (President Obama's Science ... Sep 24, 2009
In 1971, John Holdren edited and contributed an essay to a book entitled... Global Cooling, John Holdren, Junk Science, Misguided Leaders.
The facts about the 1970′s Global Cooling scare « Fabius Maximus Dec 7, 2009
The propaganda campaign to create hysteria about global warming required altering the public memory about both science and history.
Don't Miss it! Climate Depot's Factsheet on 1970s Coming 'Ice Age ... Oct 6, 2009
Despite many claims to the contrary, the 1970's global cooling fears were widespread among many scientists and in the media. Despite the fact ...
Global Cooling: Climatic cyclic history repeats itself, even if you ignore it. Posted on January 22, 2011
The CIA documents the global cooling research of the 1970’s Posted on May 25, 2012 by Anthony Watts
The 1970′s Global Cooling Compilation – looks much like today ... March 1, 2013
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A compilation of news articles on the global cooling scare of the 1970's Does the bullet point list for solutions to global cooling at right look ...
<<< Newsweek
Newsweek '75: Scientific Consensus on Global Cooling August 18, 2007
Yep, you read that headline right. In 1975, Newsweak claimed "scientific consensus" on the topic of global cooling.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change... They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality...
Newsweek on the cooling world Apr 28, 1975
Here is the text of Newsweek's 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling.
It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s,
bringing us today back to around 1940 levels.
And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
Swift-Boating James Hansen | ThinkProgress Sep 27, 2007
Hansen was part of a team that in 1971 predicted global cooling. Tom says: September 28, 2007 at 7:49 pm. This was not the last time Hansen ...
Holdren: Ice age will kill 1 billion Oct 9, 2009
Holdren's prediction that 1 billion people would die from a global cooling “eco-disaster” was announced in Ehrlich's 1986 book “The Machinery ...
Did "global cooling" have as much scientific consensus as Jul 5, 2011
By the early 1970s, when Mitchell updated his work (Mitchell 1972), the notion of a global cooling trend was widely accepted. climate-change ...
Posted on August 8, 2012
FLASHBACK: Global Cooling -1970's Environmental Hysteria ... Oct 31, 2012
Back in the 1970's "science" was firm-the earth was undergoing climate ...
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<<<Time
"Science: Another Ice Age?". Time. June 24, 1974.
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have...
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.
Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.
The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."
The Big Freeze Sept 1973 Time Cover
The thermometer of U.S. industrial production dropped rapidly last week in the big freeze of the coal strike. Barron's weekly business index skidded from 182.8 (1936-39 average: 100) to 175.3. Although it reflected only the first four days of the strike, the drop was almost two points a day.
The slump was bigger and more rapid than in last spring's strike because 1) industrial production was so high and stockpiles of components (i.e. parts) so low; and 2) the high production was burning up stockpiles of coal much faster.
Down Steel. First to show signs of industrial starvation...
Why had the rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered—could it be?—yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow.
From the Dakotas and Minnesota, across the icy Great Lakes of the Middle West and down...
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918620,00.html#ixzz2PCouaIdA
How to Survive the Coming Ice Age April 1977 Time cover
The Cooling of America December 24, 1979 Time Magazine Cover
Mud splats against wheel wells. The transmission howls. Linda Ronstadt, a half-ton Chevy pickup with a ton of yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road. Linda has four-wheel drive and a lot of heart, but this is a Sargasso of mud, the kind that bogs the wood lot every year after the leafless forest trees stop drinking water and the October rains come. Linda's friend and owner disembarks to consider the problem.
What follows is wet, dirty...
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<<NYT
8 Aug 1974: Climate Changes Endanger Worlds Food Output
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (PDF) (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
21 May 1975 Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing (second page headline reads "Scientists ponder why world's climate is changing; A major cooling widely considered to be inevitable")
19 Jan 1975 Climate Changes Called Ominous, Scientists warn predictions must be made precise to avoid catastrophe
NYT>>
<Washington Post
1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
Global Warmer Hoaxer James Hansen Once Pushed Global Cooling Sep 23, 2007
Investor's Business Daily reports that a 1971 Washington Post scare ...a "global cooling" that would lower the Earth's average temperature by ...
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<<<The Christian Science Monitor
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1979 – New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
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Forget warming - beware the new ice age National Post
In September, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the National Climate Program Act into law, in aid of predicting future climate and combating global cooling.
That act has now been enlisted in the effort to counter global warming.
"The Cooling World". ... 1) The world is currently on pace for around 3°C to 4°C of global cooling by the end of the century. ... about 4°C to 7°C warmer, on average, during the end of the last ice age, when large parts of Europe ...
Apocalypse Then - The Great Global Warming Swindle
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.-- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer
-- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)
In a 1971 essay entitled “Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide,” Holdren and his co-author Paul Ehrlich wrote that global cooling would ensue as a result of , “a reduced transparency of the atmosphere to incoming
light as a result of urban air pollutions (smoke, aerosols), agriculture air pollution (dust), and volcanic oil.”
Is it true that there was a global cooling scare in the 1970s
Is it true that there was a global cooling scare in the 1970s? Yes it is true but, like the little ice age and the mediaeval warm period, it is dismissed by the ...
Brilliant scientists like Dr. Stephen Schneider penned articles of the dire consequences of Global Cooling. In 1972 he claimed, "A cooling trend has set in, ...
Global Cooling Myth in the 70's. Many claim that in the 1970's all scientists believed the earth was cooling. Factual examination of the controversial report ...
In the 1970s scientists believed that a period of global cooling could be approaching since the temperature records showed that the global temperature had ...
'Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging ..... While Obama and his “alarmist†science czar, John Holdren, are moving ...
NASA scientist James E. Hansen, who has publicly criticized the Bush administration for dragging its feet on climate change and labeled skeptics of man-made global warming as distracting “court jesters,” appears in a 1971 Washington Post article that warns of an impending ice age within 50 years.
'Fears of a coming ice age, showed up in scientific literature, at scientific conferences, by prominent scientists and throughout the media'
By: Marc Morano - Climate Depot
National Geographic
May 13, 2015 · In 1977, National Geographic blamed an almost identical weather pattern as 2015 - on global cooling. A ridge of high pressure over California, a deep dip in the jet stream on the East Coast. Heat and drought in California Bitter cold and deep snow in the East. They could have recycled the identical article this…
Oct 01, 2015 · In 1967, National Geographic predicted 43 years of global cooling In 1976, they followed up with this idea. Real Science "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Back in the 1970s, when I was a kid, I remember there were constant unrelenting stories about global cooling. I remember reading about this stuff in National Geographic, I heard it on the radio all the time, it was on TV, and it was in the local newspaper.
Nov 06, 2017 · However, back in 1976 and in this particular National Geographic article, most of the emphasis for concern was the apparent global cooling occurring in most parts of the world. A quote in the article from Dr. J. Murray Mitchell, Jr. of NOAA and member of the U.S National Science Board in 1974 gives the reason:
