Doomsday Prophets Seamlessly Shifted from "New Ice Age" to "Planet with A Fever" But News Is Forever
Guest Post by Robert Bradley, Jr. of Master Resource.
The warming alarmists dismiss the cooling alarmists of yesterday as fringe and ignorant. But some of the biggest names of the day back then would not take too kindly ttredo the know-it-alls of today.
Alex Epstein has coined the term catastrophicism to describe the age-old Malthusian itch. Back in the 1970s, top scientists such as NASA’s S. I. Rasool, an atmospheric physicist at Columbia University, and Stephen Schneider of National Center for Atmospheric Research, were making headlines about future climate change–from people, not nature.
“Scientists have long debated whether man’s activity is actually heating or cooling the earth,” the Washington Post article below notes.
In his book The Genesis Strategy: (1976: p. 90), Stephen Schneider, then deputy head, Climate Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, wrote:
“I have cited many examples of recent climatic variability and repeated the warnings of several well-known climatologists that a cooling trend has set in–perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age ….
On the question of predicted global cooling, also see Angus Mcfarlane, “The 1970s Global Cooling Consensus was not a Myth.” A list of posts at WUWT on the subject can be found here.
Many articles in recent years have tried to walk back the climate scare of the 1970s (see here and here). But like the Climategate emails, words, paragraphs, and pages from the climate scientists’ mouth and pen cannot be erased.
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Thank you Tom! It is my hope that someday your excellent work and the True facts will make it to publishing and reporting in the Mainstream News. Those of us with experience in the power industry know, Biden's and Obama's "Climate Policies" are a war on productive Americans and a Gift to China, Russia and Iran. We have to wonder what the motivations are to deliberately weaken America. As for me, I think it is Chinese, Russian and other U.S. hating countries and entities (Don't forget Soros) $$ to Democrats laundered through NGO's. Biden's Climate policies are not about saving the planet or protecting human health. Well done my friend.
When the CIA sponsored Margaret Mead's conference that created the Carbon Cult in 1975, the prediction was still uncertain. The articles in the book treat both warming and cooling as potential disaster scenarios.
So the more recent reversion from "global warming" to "climate change" was part of the original flexible plan. No matter what happens, too warm or too cool or too wiggly or too stable, CIA was ready to turn it into tyranny.