I remember that from the 1970s: the next ICE AGE is coming!!
The line I quoted above is from 1998. A key difference between the anthropogenic ice age hysterics, the anthropogenic global warming hysterics and de Blij's position is that our actions can only slightly alter things and that natural forces have proven to be stronger, contra the eco-nuts' assertion that we are the first to
cause these perceived changes. De Blij is of the opinion that some warming is occuring, but even if everyone were to stop driving cars, factories stop operating, cows stop emitting methane, etc., it wouldn't make a bit of difference: these things happen naturally and have done so time and time again in the past. And in those cases, the warming was brief and cooling followed, as in the case of Europe from the twelfth to mid-nineteenth century (
The Little Ice Age in Europe).