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 (Lenin’s 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.”
1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
Global cooling – ice age.
June 24, 1974: Time
“Another Ice Age?”
George Wald said in 1970 that we’d be dead in 15 to 30 years? Oh well, I’m not dead...