Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/12/2009 2:12:53 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
I’ve unearthed from the YouTube dustbin what I believe to be some significant video of man-made global warming alarmist extraordinaire Stephen Schneider’s appearance on a May 1978 episode of the old television series, In Search Of…. For this episode, the show was In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age.
I used to watch In Search Of… when I was a kid. I loved it. It was mystery documentary series, and one of the things that made it cool was that it was hosted by Leonard Nimoy, i.e. Spock. In Search Of… did shows on such topics as Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle, UFO captives, and The Ogopogo Monster. As a skeptic looking back on the show today, I find it hilarious that the show included climate alarmism alongside those campy topics.
The episode in question, titled, The Coming Ice Age, has much that is worthy of discussion, and features several scientists warning of a coming ice age, including Dr. Gifford Miller, Chester Langway, and Dr. James Hays. But for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on Stephen Schneider who is featured in Part Three. Schneider may not cast as large of a shadow in the man-made global warming alarmist crowd as such luminaries as Al Gore and James Hansen, but Schneider has earned a special place in the hearts of man-made global warming skeptics everywhere when he told Discover Magazine in October, 1989:
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I remember that show! Does anyone remember the one about the “Screaming Skull”?
I saw that one as a kid and it gave me nightmares like crazy after that!!
Nimoy, excellent!
Personally I’d rather fry than freeze.
1978 was the last time I read it :-)
One of my favorite quotes of all time! Spoken like a truly biased scientist.
You reminded me of one of my all time favorite poems:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Do you have more information about that book?
bump
Here are a few links. The Amazon one has customer comments -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Federbush
http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Arnold-Federbush/dp/0553121510
I think I just found a new tag line.
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.
BFL
Thanks.
It’s amazing that people forgot about alarmist books like this from back then.
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Scratch that............... we have a media which is in the tank for these kinds of things, so I’m not entirely surprised.
We have to act as our own memory banks.
To me ICE! epitomizes how the weather charlitans are only out to grease their own palms. The Earth has only been having weather for, oh, several billion years but so-called climatologists have been able to switch from global cooling to global warming in a few short decades.
I don’t think Federbush was in on it I think he was just riding the wave.
Great book though and I’ve always thought that “The Day After Tomorrow” was a complete ripoff of ICE!.
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