Posted on 09/20/2007 7:58:33 AM PDT by ZGuy
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.
"U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming," blares the headline of the July 9, 1971, article, which cautions readers that the world "could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts."
The scientist was S.I. Rasool, a colleague of Mr. Hansen's at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The article goes on to say that Mr. Rasool came to his chilling conclusions by resorting in part to a new computer program developed by Mr. Hansen that studied clouds above Venus.
The 1971 article, discovered this week by Washington resident John Lockwood while he was conducting related research at the Library of Congress, says that "in the next 50 years" — or by 2021 — fossil-fuel dust injected by man into the atmosphere "could screen out so much sunlight that the average temperature could drop by six degrees," resulting in a buildup of "new glaciers that could eventually cover huge areas."
If sustained over "several years, five to 10," or so Mr. Rasool estimated, "such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
LOL... yer busted
I hope a mastadon stomps on Al Gore!
This is easy to explain away. As you can see, the scientist was worried about particulate buildup from fossil fuel combustion. In 1975, the US started requiring the catalytic converter for use in gasoline motor vehicles. Now your tailpipe belches CO2 and water vapor - both greenhouse gasses - so we're doomed.
We're now "doomed" if we do, and "doomed" if we don't!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I was for the Ice Age before I was against it.
Well I’m always hot and my wife is always cold, so maybe this guy is right and wrong, or maybe he’s just another liberal fool.
Picky, picky picky...
There's still 14 years left.
What's that?
He's saying the opposite today?
No he's not. Clearly, he is saying climate change.
Now, run over there and ask him to name a period of recorded history when climate was steady and unchanging. Climate, not weather!
Let us know how that works out.
You know, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, monsoons, sciroccos, monumental sandstorms, volcanic induced darkness, solar storms, gamma ray bursts, blizzards, cloudbursts, floods, death, destruction, Republicans...
All new disasters never seen before.
I wish they’d make up their minds. I dunno whether to buy a swimsuit or a parka fer crying out loud!!!
in either event, we’re all gonna die sooner or later of SOMETHING!
Time to revisit "GIGO".
Apparently NASA hires screwballs.
Let’s see: 35 years ago, in the infancy of climate modeling, someone’s model, based “in part on a computer program” written by someone who 35 years later supports the hypothesis of AGW, predicted that rising concentrations of particulate matter “could” cause global cooling.
IMO, it’s pretty telling that this sort of stuff is the best skeptics can do these days.
For anyone interested in the state of climate modeling and the predictions of possible cooling, there is a brief analysis of a 1975 NAS report here:
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/nas-1975.html
The last few volumes are:
the Age of Reason Begins
The Age of Louis XIV
The Age of Voltaire
Rousseau and the Revolution
The Age of Napoleon.
If there are additions to that set, I fully expect the natural progession of what's actually happened:
The Age of Technology
The New Dark Ages: Ignorance Revisited.
I dunno whether to buy a swimsuit or a parka fer crying out loud!!!
Layer up! It’s the only answer. Wear your speedo beneath your parka.
This is called the “damed if you do and damed if you don’t” theory.
May I say.......... WE ARE DOOMED!
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