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Anybody out there .....that remembers the Coming Ice Age scare in the 70’s?
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.
Heck yes...it snowed TWICE in Seattle in 1974....in DECEMBER!!!
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Yeah... Time Magazine had a cover on it in 1973... I think.
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From my memory this New Ice Age stuff never amounted to anything more than a few feature articles in the news magazines. It never came anywhere near the "Climate Change" aka "Global Warming" hysteria ... not even close. To be honest, I do not remember having any consciousness of it as a movement. ( I was in my 20's through most of the seventies, and finished grad school in 1979. )
Make that late 60’s & early 70’s, and yes, I remember it. Several SF novels and short stories later, and Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, & Michael Flynn answered it with “Fallen Angels” in which the new Ice Age hits because the Greens stopped us from continuing to build an industrial economy. Published in 1991, I still have the autographed teaser Jerry sent me when I was at Desert Shield/Desert Storm. It was written as a thank-you to SF fandom.
http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/067172052X/067172052X.htm will let you read it.
Jerry also claims the oldest blog in existence. And he still gets a lot of commentary on a lot of subjects...
It takes place in the near future, where the environmentalist wackos are in full control of the United States and are still pushing their "global warming" agenda even as glaciers are wiping out the northern part of the U.S.
It was published over 20 years ago, but does a good job of summarizing the attitudes of the hot air cult.
The Cooling World-Newsweek | April 28, 1975
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states...........
And don't forget the population boom, swine flu of the '70's, and acid rain.
Sure I remember it.
There were some proposals at the time that ice at the north and south poles be painted with carbon black to change the earth’s albido.
