Posted on 03/05/2015 7:47:14 AM PST by HomerBohn
The “brutal” winter is on the attack again, bringing sleet and heavy snow to the mid-Atlantic region. Previous storms targeted the deep south including Dallas, Texas, and several hammered New England. By March 4, Boston was just 2 inches away from hitting an all-time record for snow, Boston.com reported.
It’s a reality more in keeping with media warnings from the 1970s than today’s arguments about global warming. NBC Nightly News reported Feb. 23, that Dallas was paralyzed “after an entire season’s worth of sleet and freezing rain, up to two inches, fell in a single day” causing massive traffic problems. Similar scenes happened in other southern states as the cold swept across the U.S. Single digit temperatures hit New York City and Newark N.J. saw temperatures as low as 8 degrees on Feb. 23, NOAA said. Massive pileups mangled cars, Louisianans built snowmen and thousands flocked to Letchworth State Park, near Rochester, N.Y. to see a 53-foot tall ice fountain that keeps growing as record lows abound in the Northeast, CBS reported on Feb. 25. CBS also noted Rochester experienced its coldest month since 1871.
Some winters are “bone-chilling,” like this one has been, others are mild, and some like the 1972-1973 winter started early and harsh, but grew surprising mild. That was the same year Walter Cronkite was “the most trusted man in America” in 1972, according to polls.
A 2009 CBS obituary for the journalist said, “Cronkite was the biggest name in television news, the king of the anchormen; in fact, he was the reporter for whom the term ‘anchorman’ was coined. On Sept. 11, 1972, Cronkite cited scientists’ predictions that there was a “new ice age” coming. He called that prediction from British scientist Hubert Lamb “a bit of bad news.” “But then there is some good news,” Cronkite continued. “That while the weather may be just a little colder in the immediate years to come, the full extent of the new ice age won’t be reached for 10,000 years. And if you can stand any more good news, even then it won’t be as bad as the last ice age 60,000 years ago. Then New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, were under 5,000 feet of ice. Presumably no traffic moved and school was let out for the day. And that’s the way it is, Monday September 11, 1972.”
(Cronkite video at link.)
The late Cronkite is considered a “legendary journalist” and a pioneer in the field, which is why Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, said this footage was so important. Morano is a former staff member of U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee and producer of upcoming global warming documentary 'Climate Hustle' set for release later in 2015.
"Global warming activists have claimed for years that the 1970s global cooling scare never existed. They have tried to erase the inconvenient history which ironically blamed extreme weather like tornadoes, droughts, record cold and blizzards on global cooling,” said Morano.
Morano told MRC Business, “But now -- unearthed from bowels of media archives -- comes none other than Walter Cronkite reporting on fears of a coming ice age in 1972. Having Cronkite's image and face discussing global cooling fears reveals the fickleness of the climate change claims.”
“Climate fear promoters switched effortlessly from global cooling fears in the 1970s to global warming fears in the 1980s. In the present day, the phrase 'global warming' has lost favor in favor of 'climate change' or 'global climate disruption' or even 'global weirding,’ Morano added. “'Settled science' has never seemed so unsettled.”
Lamb, the scientist Cronkite cited, was no fringe scientist. He founded the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. When he died, the CRU director called him “the greatest climatologist of his time,” according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He was also credited with establishing “climate change as a serious research subject.”
Unlike scientists often quoted by the media today, GWPF said that Lamb viewed the Earth’s climate as changing constantly and naturally. Unlike its founder, CRU now has a major role in spreading global warming alarmism. CBS said in 2009, CRU “wields outsize influence” in warming circles. The Climategate scandal centered around leaked documents and emails from that organization. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2015/03/05/and-thats-way-it-was-1972-cronkite-warned-new-ice-age#sthash.lMWxtip7.dpuf
I’ll say one thing - last night was one of the coldest nights I think I’ve ever seen / felt. I’ll be glad when this global warming stops for awhile...
Don’t count on Scott Pelley showing any of this on the CBS Evening News.
I MOVE THAT WE SEND ALL THIS ARTIC AIR TO AFRICA
they could use it!!
the resulting decline in the Sun's magnetic field causes the Sun to produce less sunspots....
and thus a cooler Earth.
(and send my Nobel prize money to Tea Party candidates)
Walter Cronkite was a reliable left wing stooge.
Walter Cronkite, liar.
Walter Cronkite was a traitor to every Viet Nam Veteran. He said the war as lost after the greatest victory since WWII.
I recall, as a child, reading the “Weekly Reader” and the predictions about a coming ice age.
For years, I’ve been looking for copies online.
One day...
Of course, all current weather events are anecdotal with respect to the very real climate change that occurs over eons of time, but people need to chill out about cold winters or super hot summers being indicators of anything.
I like to give the example of the weather here in Dallas in 1979-1980. In December of 1979, an incredibly cold mass of air invaded the southern US, resulting in the temps in Dallas staying continually below freezing for something like 10 days. It was so cold that White Rock Lake in Dallas froze completely over, and I have pictures of myself and family playing ice hockey on the lake with a block of 2x4 wood and some tree limbs for sticks. This is not a small lake; people even drove cars on it.
The interesting thing to me is that during the very next summer of 1980 Dallas saw record breaking heat, suffering a string of something like 30 days in a row over 100 degrees. Thus, within about six months, Dallas experienced both record breaking cold and heat.
Cronkite quickly changed his tune. Several years later in the mid 70’s Cronkite started talking about globull warming and rising sea levels.
Excellent!
I couldn’t find the Weekly Reader though. Al Gore probably destroyed the evidence.
It is all about the money.
When there is money to be made by both sides it is a done deal.
Gorebull warming, climate change, buy my carbon credits and Production Tax Credits all money to be made and Votes to be bought.
Walter Cronkite was a uber-liberal, anti-American Statist.
Sad that so many people thought so highly of the front he presented to the public, because they had no idea of what the real man was like.
I checked their site, they have archives there but you have to subscribe. How far they go back, I have no idea. I remember the same things posted in “Highlights” magazine too. BTW, remember “Goofus and Gallant?”
“They have tried to erase the inconvenient history which ironically blamed extreme weather like tornadoes, droughts, record cold and blizzards on global cooling”
Not just ironic. It is true. Read the Little Ice Age by Fagan. It explains how mild and tranquil weather turned cold and stormy worldwide. Fagan is somewhat of a bedwetting global warming alarmist, but not as bad as some.
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