Posted on 12/16/2009 7:01:09 AM PST by OneVike
Why the climatologists get it wrong.
Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."
Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."
OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say?
In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age."
You can't blame these scientists for sucking up to the fed's mantra du jour. Scientists live off grants. Remember how Galileo recanted his preaching about the earth revolving around the sun? He, of course, was about to be barbecued by his leaders. Today's scientists merely lose their cash flow. Threats work.
In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods. Smithsonian scientists inscribed it across some 20 feet of plaster, with timelines.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Sateliite data my a$$, Nasa has actively cooked the data from the start. Hansen is a raving nutter.
Emails? Amazing how you keep ignoring that...because YOU are a liar...and you know it.
Go ahead...post the email(s).
Ok, I’ll do my part. CO2 to the rescue!
actually the coming ice age predicted in the 70s was very much considered pollution caused but never got the political grease it now has as a tool of envirowackos and as a segue for more socialist control and a transfer of wealth from the developed to third worlds:
From Time 1975:
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Interesting... I just don’t recall any of that, from what I saw, but something like that, if it wasn’t a big deal could get past me... :-)
However, at the same time, you’ll also hear Lord Monckton say in his own video (that he produced and sells) that there is a negligible connection of mankind and some CO2 that it puts into the atmosphere, thereby making a very slight difference (but nothing of consequence he says).
So, perhaps that’s what they were saying back then, even though I never heard it... :-)
You’re right in that there was no big political push or big deal to gain control over the world on the basis of something like that. Of course, that would have never gotten off the ground at all, in that day and age...
We should make this FR's Signature tune! Please share with as many as you can?!
Very true. They blamed it on pollution. They also blamed the droughts, famines and floods on the decline in temps. To their credit...they also attributed the increase in the number of tornadoes to global cooling. That part does make sense since you cool the poles quicker than the equator...which sets up a bigger temp diff b/w the two...and this means a faster jet stream and more violent weather.
But...basically everything that was happening in the 60's and 70's they attributed to global cooling. Same stuff still happening...only its global warming doing it (except we have less hurricanes and tornadoes globally).
the enviromental activism back then was mostly about no nuclear energy..i was sort of a part of that admittedly ...about the storage of nuke waste anyhow
Jackson Browne...all that stuff
many life affirmations ago
DDT scare was about over by then...with dire consequence for third world tropics
During the late 70s, there was a science show on PBS called “Connections”. We really enjoyed it, and last year, found that Netflix had the series on DVD. We got it to show to our kids, and lo and behold, in one of the episodes, the host mentions that we were in a period of cooling (remember this was made in the late 70s), and that scientists were in general agreement that sunspot data helped determine whether the cooling would continue.
Now we need another one:
“Change for the sake of Change” (buddy can you spare a buck?)
Shoot Ed I can’t even afford The Dollar Store anymore! And didya know how cheap they have gotten at recycling plants?
I do vaguely remember a show by that name, I guess that was back in the days when PBS actually broadcast stuff that had some relevance. I’m sure you are aware of this but in my very humble opinion the moment the entire
“Global Warming” issue became politicized was when the ability to perform un-biased research on the topic was lost. What’s even worse is that if there is some sort of event going on that is at the root of it all (and which we may be able to do something about) then thanks largely to the Left-wing media’s disinformation campaign we are handcuffed when we try to resolve it.
Yes, PBS used to do some good shows, but even their science shows began to be politicized, in the mid to late 80s, along with "Frontline" and everything else. Ronald Reagan sent them over the edge, and they've never come back. After that point, we used to watch "Nova" sometimes, and "Wall Street Week", but after Louis Rukheyser left that show, it wasn't interesting anymore.
Every single chance I get, when the issue is raised, I inform folks about the REAL science behind the global warming issue, and more importantly, the POLITICS behind it. Rush mentioned, YEARS ago, that radical environmentalism was the new home of the Socialist, and he was was SO right! I call them 'watermelons'; green on the outside, red on the inside.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.