It All Sounds Familiar:

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It's an old story. It wasn't that long ago that the same sort of people who currently tell us that we are on the verge of worldwide destruction due to "global-warming", were proclaiming that we were on the verge of worldwide destruction due to "global-cooling" and over-population. If you are old enough, you might remember some of these memorable quotes:

• "After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder."
           [New York Times, Jan. 30, 1961]
• "The signs are that the decades to come will see a halt to the warming process, or even its reversal."
           [The Guardian, June 12, 1962]
• ".. civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind"
           [George Wald, Biologist, Harvard University, April 10, 1970]
• Due to increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor: "the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born"
           [Newsweek Magazine, January 26, 1970]
• By 1995: "..somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
           [Senator Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look Magazine, April, 1970]
• The world will be: "11 degrees colder in the year 2000 (this is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age)"
           [Kenneth Watt, Ecologist, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970]
• "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation"
           [Barry Commoner, Biologist at University of Washington, The journal Environment, January, 1970]
• "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make"
           [Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April, 1970]
• "air pollution ... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone"
           [Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April, 1970]
• "By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half ..."
           [Life magazine, January, 1970]
• "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation"
           [Denis Hayes, Earth Day organizer, The Living Wilderness, Spring, 1970]
• "By the year 2000 ... the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine"
           [Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring, 1970]
• "By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people..."
  "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
           [Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September, 1971]
• "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000."
           [Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972]
• "An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere."
           [New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978]
• "The Cooling World: 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... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it... 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 thirteen U.S. states. ... The central fact is that ... the earth's climate seems to be cooling down.   [Emphasis added]
           [Newsweek, April 28, 1985]





• "New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now."   [i.e., by 2004]
           [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 17, 1989]
• "[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots ... [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers."
           [Michael Oppenheimer, from his book "Dead Heat," 1990]
• "In ten years time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu's nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged under water as global warming rises sea levels."
           [CNN, March, 29, 2001]   [Water failed to rise!]
• "Compiled by a team of scientists from Canada and the United States, the report says the rising temperatures accompanying climate change will cause the lakes to shrink, with water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan likely falling about three metres [ten feet] by 2030."
           [The Globe and Mail, April 9, 2003]   [Water failed to drop!]
• "On December 5, 2005, Klotzbach's team issued its initial extended-range forecast for the 2006 season, predicting an above average of 17 named storms, nine of them hurricanes, and five classified as Category 3 intensity or higher."    But the actual results were:    "The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season was significantly less active than the record previous season. It marked the first season since 2001 in which no hurricanes made landfall in the United States, and was the first since 1994 in which no tropical cyclones formed during October.
           [Wikipedia, on NOAA Predictions, December 5, 2005]
• "Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire North Polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.   [i.e., by 2014-2016]
           [Al Gore, COP15 Climate Conference, December 14, 2009]
• "It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won't be any ice in the Arctic in the summer."
           [David Vaughan, Financial Times, August 2, 2013]

And finally, here is a current prediction from yet another world figure. Mark your calendars!

• "Ladies and gentlemen, I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months   [i.e., by the end of 2020]  will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival."
           [Prince Charles, Speech to Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, July 11, 2019]

For example, here is a nice one page article titled The Cooling World, that appeared in the April 28, 1975 issue of Newsweek. It states that the evidence for widespread planetary cooling is "ominous" and "has now begun to accumulate so massively that meterologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." Famine is imminent. Is there scientific consensus? Of course! "[Meterologists] are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century."

And the proposed solution? More government intervention of course. "Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climate change, or even to allay its effects." You know, like the proposal to melt the polar ice cap by covering it with black soot, and other similar measures to save the planet!

Whoops, whoops, and whoops again! With over forty years to see these predictions realized, there was no runaway climate disaster, no worldwide famine. No end to civilization. No ice age. No mass species extinction. No American dust bowl. Britain is still intact. The North Pole still has a 3.82 million square mile ice mass. If New York sucks, its not due to its mimicing Florida. And there is still enough sunlight to require SPF 45. Yet, I don't remember getting an apology from any of these people, their sponsoring universities, or a retraction published in any of the major magazines.

And despite their utter failure at accurate predictions, every one of these purveyors of doom was being funded from the same government trough, and consequently, demanding exactly the same "solution" as is being proposed today: complete regulation over the behavior of every individual and businesses by government overseerers. If the true goal of these policies was human salvation, then the lessons of history and the Climategate facts should give one pause. But if the actual goal is gaining control as a means to increased power, then ignoring all these bothersome facts, as is being done, begins to make a perverted sort of sense.

Now, take a look at this table put together by a blogger known as Kaz, titled: Climate Change Timeline — 1895-2009. This documents the histrionics reported in the media over the past hundred years regarding our imminent death by cooling or heating. The only consistent thing is that none of the end-of-the-world scenarios has ever come to pass. One particularly interesting item from this list is the 1923 prediction from Professor Gregory of Yale University, as reported in the Chicago Tribune, that states: "Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada". This follows on the heals of a 1922 report titled, The Changing Arctic, which reads in part:

"The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto un-heard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth's surface."

[...]

"The oceanographic observations have, however, been even more interesting. Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81° 29' in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus."

[...]

"[F]ormerly the waters about Spitzbergen held an even summer temperature of about 3° Celsius; this year recorded temperatures up to 15°, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen."

Could it possibly be that the restoration of normal temperatures and ice flow in 1923 was the source of Professor Gregory's dire predictions rather than a looming global catastrophe? I guess we'll never know. Oh, wait, then there was 1924. All of this just reinforces the obvious point that the natural climate is always changing, from year to year, decade to decade, and on larger scales.

On March 1st, 2013, Anthony Watts published a nice summary of Global Cooling articles from the 1970s, along with this fun little video clip narrated by Leonard Nimoy:

This cartoon summarizes things nicely.

At least the movie Blade Runner got the environmental predictions right!

Putting Weather Into an Historical Context:

Weather occurs each and every day, and with great frequency we are bombarded by reports of "extreme" events, whether it be warming, cooling, flooding, droughts, tornados, hurricanes, wildfires, etc., happening somewhere in the world.  In most cases, man-made CO2 is reported as being responsible.  The physicist Dr. Ralph B. Alexander has written a paper that places these extreme weather events into an historical context, showing that there is nothing unusual happening today that hasn't been occurring in the past.  Here is an excerpt from the executive summary:

"This report refutes the popular but mistaken belief that today's weather extremes are more common and more intense because of climate change, by examining the history of extreme weather events over the past century or so.
[...]
The perception that extreme weather is increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of modern technology — the Internet and smart phones — which have revolutionised communication and made us much more aware of such disasters than we were 50 or 100 years ago.  The misperception has only been amplified by the mainstream media, eager to promote the latest climate scare.  And as psychologists know, constant repetition of a false belief can, over time, create the illusion of truth.  But history tells a different story."

Alexander examines the historical record and demonstrates that in every case the disasters of today are no worse than in the past and that it is primarily ignorance of that past that leads to today's distorted climate picture.  He concludes:

"The historical examples presented in this report should put to rest once and for all the notion that global warming is exacerbating weather extremes."

Click on the following link to download a PDF copy of the full article.

Weather Extremes in Historical Context  by Ralph Alexander

Climate of Fear:

The real climate to be worried about is the manufactured climate of fear that is the staple of manipulative political indoctrination and control. Every government has used it, including the probable false flag Reichstag fire, used to garner German support for World War II and the Gulf of Tonkin incident which was used to deceive Americans into supporting an escalation of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War. This trend continues today with a media-manufactured fear of "terrorism" being used to justify the abridgement of liberty and rights in the name of safety and the "fight on terror."

In recent times, government-funded science has become the handmaiden of many political agendas. Governments commission studies in order to get the desired data or results that can then be publicize in order to generate unfounded fears in the public, allowing them to advance further regulations and control over the populace that would not otherwise be supported. As mentioned in the introduction, the cancer scare of the early 1970s was one example. Others include the non-materializing 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, the Y2K global meltdown, the non-catastrophe of acid rain scare, the peak oil predictions and the ozone hole supposedly caused by chlorofluorocarbons. What is occurring today regarding the earth's climate is just a continuation of these age old propaganda techniques.

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