Posted on 09/14/2016 1:45:15 PM PDT by detective
Everyone knows that before the global warming scare began in the 1980s, scientists were much more worried about global cooling and the coming ice age.
At least everybody did till a cabal of lying climate alarmists – one then a senior administrator at NOAA, now a president at the World Meteorological Association – hijacked Wikipedia, published a lying paper, and rewrote history by painting the 1970s Global Cooling Scare as an urban myth.
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When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.
These are exactly the kinds of persons behind most of the hacking releases also.
A trust-worthy, knowledgeable manager must watch system administrators / webmasters lest there be abuses like this.
I have often wondered just how long it took him to become an AGW fanboy.
Mr. niteowl77
Longer term climatic data such as ice core samples would indeed support a prognostication that the climate of the earth has been cycling in and out of ice ages, and is poised at the brink of plunging into yet another ice age. All of which was happening over and over without any fluorocarbon gases, without any SUVs. It would probably take activity on a celestial level, like variations in solar output, to drive that kind of fluctuation.
The ability to measure temperature directly using thermometers is relatively recent. During the lifetime of that, the earth has been seen to be apparently increasing in temperature. There is talk about whether this might be tied to anthropogenic activity.
All of western civilization, the development of agriculture, the creation of cities and empires, has taken place in an unusual patch of fair weather. The Earth has spent a lot longer in ice than in sunny climes. We are in an interglacial period which could end at any moment. (Moments being about 20,000 years long.) We are a lot closer to ice sheets than rising sea levels.
I think the government ought to insist we all buy SUV’s that get 12 miles per gallon with a goal of achieving five miles per gallon in 20 years.
There is a good argument to be made that AGW, if there is any, has arrived just in time to stave off a freezing disaster.
It would be ironic if "global warming" did exist, and it was the only thing holding off the Ice Age...
I walked in on the tail of a “natural science” class in college 1970. My physics class was going to be in that room for the next hour. The instructor was reiterating the global cooling scenario as part of the classroom instruction. It struck me as poppycock at the time.
I’m not even sure AGW would be able to swamp this out. We’d have to be able to explain ALL of this in terms of atmospheric CO2 content DRIVING the rest of it, before being able to count on that.
On balance, both theories were ill-advised attempts to portray short-term minor changes as large-scale major pattern shifts. The real drivers of large-scale change are much slower in their impact and if we get really lucky, our presence on the planet will overcome the next glacial episode which we can expect in about ten to thirty thousand years from now.
I think anyone will agree that this is the least of our worries on this particular planet at this point in history.
BTW: The “solution” proposed to global cooling involved giving draconian government control over industry. Sound familiar?
That explains alot, doesn’t it?
Democrat = IGNORANCE
I went to elementary school in the Los Angeles area during the late 60’s and early 70’s. They were trying to stuff the “Global Ice Age Caused By Pollution Blocking Out The Sun” BS down out throats every day.
We were all hoping that meant we would have snow for Christmas.
bookmark
I always laugh when they deny the Global Cooling scare of the 60’s & 70’s claiming the press was lying and exaggerating back then, but somehow the press is so much more honest today
But all you have to do is look up the 1974 study done by the CIA
A study of climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems
Quotes
“The western world’s leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of a detrimental global climatic change. The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin projects that the earth’s climate is returning to that of the neo-boreal era (1600-1850) - an era of drought, famine, and political unrest in the western world”
“Leaders in climatology and economics are in agreement that a climate change is taking place and that it has already caused major economic problems throughout the world. As it become apparent to the nations around the world that the current trend is indeed a long term reality, new alignments will be made among nations to insure a secure supply of food resources. Assessing the impact of climate change on major nations will in the future, occupy a major portion of the Intelligence Community’s assets”.
“Science” has sailed blithely along in its assumptions that the output of the sun itself hasn’t been fluctuating.
But why should we hypothesize that? The ability to measure anything objectively hasn’t been around long enough to compare how the sun shined on a scale of 10,000 year increments. Whatever is roiling around in the heart of the sun as it consumes its fuel could not be verifiably modeled. If the sun was dimming for previous ice ages and dims again, there ain’t going to be anything we can physically do about it. Modern technology, and nothing less, would suffice to keep humanity alive.
I'll bet he didn't change. Geologists are among the only scientists who know the history of the Earth and the huge changes in climate it's experienced -- and why. A few have fallen for the PC bait but in general the best books written about the realities of climate change have been by geologists.
I highly recommend "Global Warming - Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers" by G. Dedrick Robinson, an historical geologist, and his attorney son. It puts the whole debate into the proper perspective.
I remember most of what I read, and I read a lot. I distinctly recall the articles in Scientific American and National Geographic regarding the next ice age. There was a particular article in National Geographic about the second balf of the NFL season being canceled by confinuous blizzards burying stadiums in snow. And in the summer, in “the sheltdred and shady places, not all of the snow drifts melted beford the next season’s znows.”
There was a string of bitterly cold and snowy winters in the mid to late 1970s. I was stranded in college during the Blizzard of 78. Many people went nuts, and were shrt-sighted and lacked perspective. I’m sure they are just as hysterical about “global warming.”
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