[cripplecreek]

Interesting picture/story from Newsweak 1975.


http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/TheBlogFromTheCore20060428Lg.jpg

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

I remember this very clearly when I was a kid. The impending ICE AGE (insert shrieks of horror here). Here's the jpg so you don't have to click, using more energy to propel your finger, causing massive global warming (barf) :

[cogitator]

There are a lot of reasons that this overhyped erroneous conclusion of the media was an overshoot of what the scientists were saying at the time. Yes, there was a slight cooling trend; yes, sulfur emissions were probably involved. But there are no truly scientific predictions of a significant cooling trend from the 1970s; the models were still way too crude. (References available on request)