Thursday, September 30, 2010

From Global Cooling to Global Cooling

Back in the 1970s, Time magazine and other major media outlets published a series of articles about the coming ice age. For those of you who have forgotten, or are too young to have experienced this environmental fear campaign, I kid you not. On June 24, 1974, they published an article titled, "Science, Another Ice Age?" By 1977, it was a done deal, as indicated by their cover story, "How to Survive the Coming Ice Age," illustrated here.

But it was also in 1977 that scientific opinion started to shift toward global warming. In early 1978 the New York Times reported that a poll of climate scientists found them evenly divided on whether there would be warming, cooling, or no particular change. But the balance among the handful of top experts had shifted strongly toward the likelihood of warming.

The climate change issue became more politicized in the 1980s, as more and more people became aware of the issue. But not everyone thought more greeenhouse gases, CO2 in particular, were a bad thing. The most comforting ideas came from a respected scientist, Sherwood Idso, who published arguments that greenhouse gas emissions would not warm the Earth or bring any other harm to climate. Better still, by fertilizing crops, the increase of CO2 would bring tremendous benefits. His book, Carbon Dioxide: Friend or Foe? came down entirely on the side of Friend. In his opinion, the increase of CO2 "is something to be encouraged and not suppressed."

The controversy over climate change continued throughout the 1990s until today, culminating in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth. At this point, Gore's position was that the debate was over, that global warming was a fact. This lasted until we found out that some of the researchers cooked some of their books, and not all the data was correct, nor was all the analysis done correctly. In fact, some of the data is missing. This has been referred to as ClimateGate, a huge cover-up.

Then the climate began to show signs of change again, but this time cooling instead of warming. When the Obama administration took over in 2009, global warming was no longer the preferred term; climate change or disruptive climate change became the new descriptive terminology.

But we're now back to where we started. The next event will be global cooling, some predict. As James Delingpole writes:

At its June meeting in Sitges, Spain (unreported and held in camera, as is Bilderberg’s way), some of the world’s most powerful CEOs rubbed shoulders with notable academics and leading politicians. They included: the chairman of Fiat, the Irish Attorney General Paul Gallagher, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Dick Perle, the Queen of the Netherlands, the editor of the Economist…. Definitely not Z-list, in other words.

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations. [emphasis mine]
Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling.
Which means one of two things.

Either it was a printing error.

Or the global elite is perfectly well aware that global cooling represents a far more serious and imminent threat to the world than global warming, but is so far unwilling to admit it except behind closed doors.

With so many people and governments pushing for de-carbonization, and the taxes and policies that have been and would be put in place, can we really believe which way the climate is going? Is cutting back on carbon dioxide a good thing?

Al Gore's global warming scare may turn out to be the biggest hoax of the century. But I think if we just wait a few decades, it might be back in vogue. In the meantime, my message to my government: You can no longer use global warming as an excuse to steal more of my money.

And by the way, where is Al Gore?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

9 of the highest worldwide average temperatures ever, have been recorded in the last 12 years. Not theory or conjecture, but fact. Deal with it, but don't lie about it.

Steve said...

Is that you FG from Colorado? So you calling me a liar now? Not one thing in my post was a lie. Not one. Go back and read it. This was a report on what our idiot politicians and elitists doing and saying. So go back and read it one more time and tell me where the lies are.

Otherwise, go away with your hateful comments and just keep drinking that Kool-Aid. You don't want to debate, just attack those who don't agree with you.

Jim said...

Darn and I sold my yaht 12 yrs ago. Would have been nice to have on those hot summer days.

I bet after cap and trade is past and Copenhagen treaty that no matter how high our cost and taxes go up it will not lower the temp 1/10 of a degree. Stupid demoRATS.
ovomit, pelosi and reid think they can control sunspot activity through taxes. oh boy.

whether it is global cooling or warming it is surely bush's fault.

Will S. said...

The Time articles are true:

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663607/posts

But that cover is Photoshopped from a 2007 global warming cover:

www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20070409,00.html

You will search in vain for a similar cover from April 1977; go ahead and look at the Time cover database there, using the above link; see for yourself.

Spaztastic said...

All I can say is I moved to Milwaukee 21 years ago. I remember snow storms in November and blizzards in December. Now we are not getting any measurable snow until after Xmas and into January. Right now (Feb 2013) we have had back to back heavy snow. You do the math. We have been pumping crap into our atmosphere for the last 100 years--It's goning to make a differnce

Spurwing Plover said...

TIME magazines lying to its readers and worst off is their lying to school kids with their childrens edition TIME for KIDS this liberal news rag needs to be totaly boycotted

Brian said...

Hey, more historical denialism, beautiful work guys.
You will be like the COVID victims who don't want to go to the hospital for fear of bolstering untrue theories about the morbidity of the disease...

Mark said...

So how did that COVID Science pan out Brian? oh right a hoax just like the global coming ice age, wait, global warming, wait climate change LOL

Anonymous said...

Well Mark, did you trust the science and keep wearing the mask when you were ordered to after reading the ‘science’ on the mask box that read: “masks will not contain viruses“?