H. L. Mencken (1880 1956), Journalist magazine editor
The [news media] is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant
and the crazy crazier.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.
- January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette Imaginary Change of Climate
a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
instructed meteorologists
We have often noticed
every season is sure to be
extraordinary, almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.
- 1902: Los Angeles Times
Glaciers are undergoing their final annihilation due to warming.
- 1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada
- May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents
- May 23, 1969: New York Times
Worrying About a New Ice Age.
- April 22, 1970 (Lenins birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
George Wald, Harvard Biologist
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
problems facing mankind.
- 1970s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
Global cooling ice age.
- June 24, 1974: Time
Another Ice Age?
- June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
Noel Brown, senior UN environment official
Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
global warming is not reversed by 2000.
- 1997:
U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.
- 2006:
Al Gore [alleged expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan]
10 years to solve the global-warming problem.
- 2007:
Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
If theres no action before 2012, thats too late.
- January 19, 2009:
James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASAs Goddard Institute of Space Studies
President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.
- December 2009:
Al Gore [alleged expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit
75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.
- November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article
Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming hiatus [17 years without warming].
Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!
- April 13, 2014:USA Today
(IPCC states),
global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels