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Video: Barrasso, Inhofe tag-team Boxer on 1970s “New Ice Age” exposure of Holdren
Hot Air ^ | 9:30 am on March 3, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 03/03/2011 5:58:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m old enough to remember when scientists issued alarms over a coming Ice Age that would wipe out life on Earth on a massive scale. Senator John Barrasso’s memory holds up pretty well, too, and he reminded everyone of the consensus in the 1970s that the climate had begun to cool so significantly that, er, the world needed massive government interventions in energy production and consumption to survive it. Barrasso quotes from Newsweek and Time articles of the period. Senator Tom Udall attempts to ride to EPW Chair Barbara Boxer’s rescue by introducing an article that claims the global-cooling consensus of the 1970s was a “myth,” and Boxer urges Udall to add it to the record. But that’s just the set-up Jim Inhofe needed to complete this two-man demolition of “consensus” and to expose the main White House adviser on climate change as a chronic crank, as the Daily Caller reports:

The exchange started with Barrasso addressing the committee’s witness, Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson.

“Forty years ago, the same scientists that are predicting the end of the world now from global warming were predicting the end of the world from global cooling,” said Barrasso. “So if we had committed the same amount of taxpayer resources and government manpower that the administration now wants us to commit to prevent global warming — if we’d done that prevent global cooling, we wouldn’t be the most prosperous nation on earth.” …

Still later, Inhofe got into the science debate by citing a 1971 study by Dr. John Holdren, who just so happens to be President Obama’s advisor on science technology. In that study Holdren wrote, “The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large human populations scarcely need elaboration here.” Holdren went on to write that the effects could “generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history.”

A visibly satisfied Inhofe then turned to Boxer, and stated, “So even the president’s people are agreed with me, Madam Chairwoman!”

The passage scanned at Zombietime is even more explicit about Holdren’s hysteria over hypothermia, emphases Zombie’s:

It seems, however, that a competing effect has dominated the situation since 1940. This is the reduced transparency of the atmosphere to incoming light as a result of urban air pollution (smoke, aerosols), agricultural air pollution (dust), and volcanic ash. This screening phenomenon is said to be responsible for the present world cooling trend—a total of about .2°C in the world mean surface temperature over the past quarter century. This number seems small until it is realized that a decrease of only 4°C would probably be sufficient to start another ice age.Moreover, other effects besides simple screening by air pollution threaten to move us in the same direction. In particular, a mere one percent increase in low cloud cover would decrease the surface temperature by .8°C. We may be in the process of providing just such a cloud increase, and more, by adding man-made condensation nuclei to the atmosphere in the form of jet exhausts and other suitable pollutants. A final push in the cooling direction comes from man-made changes in the direct reflectivity of the earth’s surface(albedo) through urbanization, deforestation, and the enlargement of deserts.

Remember — Holdren is one of the leading voice in the US on global warming now.  He’s also Obama’s climate-change czar.

I haven’t seen that kind of a setup and payoff since Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made movies with Dorothy Lamour. That was during the period when American industry and economic expansion held the national consensus rather than Chicken Little hypotheses with chronically faulty models and contradictory results. Man, I guess I am getting old.

Update: Sen. Inhofe’s office wrote to correct the identification of Mark Udall in the video, which I got from the DC.  It’s actually Tom Udall, his brother.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxer; catastrophism; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; holdren; inhofe; ipcc; onegoodsenator; senate
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1 posted on 03/03/2011 5:58:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Holdren’s fault.


2 posted on 03/03/2011 6:03:02 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

ping for later...I need to make some popcorn for this one.
:-)


3 posted on 03/03/2011 6:03:21 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bwahahahahahahaha! Priceless.


4 posted on 03/03/2011 6:03:30 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; tubebender; Carry_Okie; Brad's Gramma; ...

Anybody out there .....that remembers the Coming Ice Age scare in the 70’s?


5 posted on 03/03/2011 6:05:58 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Buh, buh, but, globalwarming=globalcooling=globalclimatechange=globalclimatedisruption=climatechaos=earthgonebeserk...and it's all MAN'S FAULT.....
6 posted on 03/03/2011 6:09:35 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I think there was a Time magazine cover and story devoted to the new ice age we were entering.


7 posted on 03/03/2011 6:09:50 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

nice.


8 posted on 03/03/2011 6:09:49 PM PST by grandpa jones (Obama must be exhausted, having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes, I remember it. Then they realized that they couldn’t destroy the economy if there were an ice age because that would be a good reason to drill, baby, drill.

So they switched to “global warming,” which gives them the opportunity to halt energy production here because who needs to heat anything if the whole world is getting warmer?

May God forgive me, I hate those lying dogs.


9 posted on 03/03/2011 6:10:24 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Anybody out there .....that remembers the Coming Ice Age scare in the 70’s?

Heck yes...it snowed TWICE in Seattle in 1974....in DECEMBER!!!

10 posted on 03/03/2011 6:12:26 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

mark (for stepdaughter)


11 posted on 03/03/2011 6:16:36 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: dynachrome
I think there was a Time magazine cover and story devoted to the new ice age we were entering.


12 posted on 03/03/2011 6:17:47 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

ROTFLOL Boxer got her ears boxed.


13 posted on 03/03/2011 6:18:25 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: PROCON

Thanks!


14 posted on 03/03/2011 6:23:27 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: PROCON

LOL....Excellent!


15 posted on 03/03/2011 6:25:36 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.
 
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16 posted on 03/03/2011 6:35:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Don’t confuse Boxer (Ma’am) with facts. She’s too damn dumb to understand the argument.


17 posted on 03/03/2011 6:39:02 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Anybody out there .....that remembers the Coming Ice Age scare in the 70’s?"
Yes. One could hardly find a magazine that did not broadcast Holdren's horse manure. We where doomed.

"When Barack Obama nominated John P. Holdren as his Science Adviser last December 20, the president-elect stated "promoting science isn’t just about providing resources" but "ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology." In nominating John Holdren, his words could scarcely have taken a more Orwellian ring.". Quote taken from Frontpage Magazine.
18 posted on 03/03/2011 6:45:36 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: TheOldLady
So they switched to “global warming,” which gives them the opportunity to halt energy production here because who needs to heat anything if the whole world is getting warmer?

Actually, in the seventies, it was getting cooler. The trend reversed in the eighties.

Then, in the nineties, it really did start to get warmer -- up until 2001, then it started getting cooler again.

Fact is, 1890's, the 'teens, the thirties, the fifties and the nineties were warming. The oughts, the twenties, the forties, the sixties, the seventies, eighties and the oughts were cooling.

Do you see a pattern here? And it has nothing to do with man.

Do you see a pattern here.

19 posted on 03/03/2011 6:51:08 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: TigersEye

It’s fun to watch, but making Boxer look like an idiot is not really much of a challenge.


20 posted on 03/03/2011 7:06:41 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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