Global Cooling or Global Warming? Take Your Pick
May 4, 2007 · By Greg Farries
In the 1970s it was global cooling that had climatologists worried. According to the research conducted on climate change, global temperatures – particularly those in the north – were cooling drastically and it appears that the earth was heading towards another ice age.
In 1975 Newsweek ran an article entitled “The Cooling World” which contained some rather dire predictions for humanity,
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
Sounds scare, but where was the proof that this was actually happing?
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
Mari Krueger, from Gelf Magazine, managed to track down one of the scientists that was quoted in the original Newsweek article and later in a New York Times article about global cooling. I highly suggest you check it out.
there was article a day or so ago that forcast the polar ice cap was warming (melting) much faster than predicted. if memory serves right within 20 years instead of the 50 given. that has to tell you something about computer models i would think. garbage in garbage out. make it whatever you want it to be to cause fear and panic and sell newspapers and scams.