A compilation of news articles on the global cooling scare of the 1970’s
Does the bullet point list for solutions to global cooling at right look familiar? It reads almost like some of the manifestos we get from warmists today, including the suspension of Democracy as the article in the Owosso Newspaper clearly demonstrates. Thanks to Poptech for the compilation.
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause.
Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
News articles*:
1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 – Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971)
1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
1972 – British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (Portsmouth Times, September 11, 1972)
1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972)
1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, September 12, 1972)
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, December 5, 1974)
1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel – December 5, 1974)
1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator – March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, March 2, 1975)
1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, March 3, 1975)
1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977)
1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977)
1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 – The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’ (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, January 17, 1978)
1978 – Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)
1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
1979 – Get Ready to Freeze (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
1979 – New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
And from the National Center for Atmospheric Research:
Source: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull165/16505796265.pdf
While a silent majority of the scientific community may have been more skeptical, you ironically find one of the most outspoken supporters of modern day Al Gore style global warming alarmism was promoting global cooling in the 1970s, the late Dr. Steven Schneider;
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“ – Life of Reason, George Santayana
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Shoutout to everyone: If anyone knows of any more such links, please post them! This list is great but it can’t even be close to all of them.
Yep. The Ice Age. The Russians. Acid Rain. Islam. Global Warming Climate Disruption. If it’s not one bogeyman it’s another. Governments; I despise them for the evil they are.
nuclearcannoli, excellent post.
Scientists are covering their tracks with today’s AGW alarmism. Looks to me like we’re headed more towards a cooling trend than a warming one. When the new ice age hits, these same alarmists can point back to the 70s cooling scare and say “See??? We were right all along!”
Many good comments on how this compilation destroys the all too common appeal to authority argument currently made by CAGW proponents.
I hope this article gets some wider circulation so the general public gets a better understanding of the fallacy of the appeal to authority argument. The pro-CAGW supporters seem to be getting pretty vocal lately so this could be very timely
No matter the problem, no matter the question, the answer is ALWAYS a global government with unlimited power to control all aspects of life and commerce.
Funny that.
Anthony,
Typo in the first paragraph. “at the article in the Owosso” looks like it should be “as the article”.
Thanks for the post.
pbh
[Now “the suspension of … as the article” Mod]
The irony, remember the “Teams” response to Wegman?
Plagiarism.
The sin of academia.
Lying, falsifying results and stealing grant money; Not a problem.
Plagiarism; we get rid of all kinds of academics with, its so powerful in academia that its used to deflect attention from a scathing critique of the stats skills of team IPCC.
Now much of the alarmist “science” is recycled, word for word from past works.
Same solution, same causative agent, deferring effect.
Small wonder the UN wants to control the internet, this tool never forgets.
Unlike the compulsive liars of the Cult, or do I mean the cause?
[Mods: please delete my 11:07 am above and use this one instead. The blockquotes are better formatted]
The Intersection of Climate Change and the Clean Air Act
• 43 ARIZONA STATE L. J. 901(2011).
Arnold W. Reitze Jr.
University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law
Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 901, 2011
Paragraph 2:
For PDF, follow the link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2153842
The misrepresentations are breathtaking!
H2O is also a green house gas, a product of hydrocarbon combustion, more powerful than CO2, but is not counted as such. “Ninety-eight percent of the CO2 was emitted from fossil fuel combustion,” like animals and termites aren’t sources of CO2.
It is a first class paper and summarizes into a few pages (and 345 footnotes!) all history and law about the Clean Air Act and how the EPA is using it for CO2 regulation. A worthy reference to keep handy.
His concluding paragraph:
Bold mine. He may be a good lawyer, but he’s no skeptic.
Brilliant compilation. It shows the same constellation of dark forces of money and control at work these days. Now that “AGW science” is fully in the grip of the aforementioned constellation, the emphasis will shift to the activities of Ball and Monckton in the legal sphere.
We’re not actually dealing with a particular scare, just a certain type of anti-human mentality that revels in the certitude of its own ignorance.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/sleeping-with-the-enemy/
Pointman
“It’s weather Jim, but not as we know it.”
Looks like someone figured out how to use the “find/replace all” feature and changed “cooling” to “warming”… Does this qualify as plagurism???
nuclearcannoli says (March 1, 2013 at 10:25 am): “The ‘solutions’ always remain the same even though the scare has evolved to the complete opposite claim of what it once was.”
Snake oil salesmen will always be with us.
I Find it rather ironic that the experts predicted a coming ice age in the 70’s and right on queue, the climate stalls and warms up a bit. Now the experts are predicting unprecedented warming and right on queue, the climate stalls and cools down a bit. Perhaps the experts should tell us the opposite of what they think will happen to actually get it right.
Nice work poptech!
Copied from “Rasool, S.I., and S.H. Schneider, 1971:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and aerosols: Effects of large increases on global climate.” posted by Jimbo supra:-
An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5°K.
There’s no such unit as ‘degrees Kelvin’. A real scientist would know this.
May I suggest you look for all politicians in the 80s that said sea levels would rise significantly by 2020 (or in that time frame).
Also, did they cancel the SST (supersonic transport, the US Concorde project) because of the ice age or because of ozone. I can’t remember.
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age
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That is absolutely impossible….
…for one thing, we now know that “history” didn’t even start until the late ’70s
for another, no honest scientist would start measuring temp increases at a low point
SNARK
Thank you for a riveting post! A couple of observations spring to mind, that demonstrate ‘consistent’. First, MSM reporting favours ANY alarmism over vapid reporting. Second, Arnold Reitze was perspicacious in the 1970’s.
His publications are available on the Social Science Network.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=361683#show1618596
‘New Source Review: Should it Survive?’ (2004) Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 34, No. 10673. Arnold Reitze reviews the Clean Air Act’s new source review program and concludes that as applied to existing major emission sources it is uncertain, vague, complex and often ignored. It concludes that it should be replaced with a cap-and-trade program imposed on all industries on either a regional or national basis.
‘Electric Power in a Carbon Constrained World’ (2010) Arnold Reitze observes that using existing laws is a poor way to develop an energy policy, and Congress should create a comprehensive energy policy that will reduce our dependence on carbon-based fuels in a manner that does not harm the economy, but the pending cap-and-trade bills will not accomplish this goal.
Add these to the list.
“John Holdren in 1971: “New ice age” likely”
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=873
“Here are some “global cooling” quotations and comments from an earlier era.”
http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/the-global-cooling-scare-revisited/
“A New Treasure Trove Of 1970s “Global Cooling” Articles”
http://omnologos.com/a-new-treasure-trove-of-1970s-global-cooling-articles/
This is very good stuff and a useful reference. Congratulations on all the research behind it.
Coincidentally I did a brief response on the global cooling scare last week in response to someone who posted the notorious Connelley article in which he cited material that claimed the scare didnt exist.
My item may be useful in putting the documentation provided here into an overal scientific context so I have reproduced it below;hope its useful as an addendum to your useful article, sorry for its length.
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Response from a warmist posted here;
http://judithcurry.com/2013/02/22/spinning-the-climate-model-observation-comparison/#comment-298268
“mosomoso, more scientists were predicting warming in the 70s than cooling. See: Who sparked the global cooling myth?”
My response;
er…Lamb, Mitchell, Budyko, Ladurie etc etc sparked it. I thought that ‘study’ by Connelley had gone the same way as the hockey stick-into the forgotten cellars of history.
As Budyko himself says (who seems to have subsequently changed his mind about cooling as did Lamb-as scientists should do when new evidence comes to light) in his 1982 book “The earths climate past and future’ pages 148 ;
‘it was generally accepted that a tendancy towards climatic cooling appeared during the last few decades; since the sign of temperature fluctuations changes relatively rarely, the scientists concerned with climatic change almost UNANIMOUSLY (my capitalization) believed that the temperature would continue to decrease in the near future…Lamb 1973 mentioned that more than 20 forecasts of the early 70’s concerning climatic change predicted a cooling trend in the next few decades, but (then) indicated a lack of sufficient scientific grounds for these forecasts and two years later obtained the FIRST (my capitalization) evidence of a possible climatic change towards warming.”
(The temperature cooling can be seen in the Willett/Mitchell curves of the time)
Budyko continues;
‘in the 1940’s the warming trend was overcome by a cooling trend which intensified in the 1960’s and in the mid 60’s the mean air temperature of the Northern Hemisphere (once again) approached the level of the cold seasons of the late 1910’s .”
To summarise, here is what seems to have happened; As you know there was a very substantial warming from the 1920’s to 1940’s. This reversed itself. By 1962/3 the dropping temperature made Callendar himself doubt his greenhouse theory. Budyko, Lamb and an almost ‘unanimous’ agreement of climate scientists believed we were heading into a significant cooling phase . Lamb eventually pointed out in 1973 that the cooling was not sufficiently long lived to be a a scientifically meaningful climatic trend of at least 30 years. The widespread scare of cooling changed into a scare of warming as temperatures started to recover.
Here are a couple of additional links and a quote;
“The second important group analyzing global temperatures was the British government’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, founded by Lamb in 1971 and now led by Tom Wigley. Help in assembling data and funding came from American scientists and agencies. The British results agreed overall with the NASA group’s findings — the world was getting warmer. In 1982, East Anglia confirmed that the Northern Hemisphere cooling that began in the 1940s had turned around by the early 1970s.
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/20ctrend.htm
Also see;
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php
So the 20 year long (very real) cooling scare was most rife during the 1960’s and came to an end in the early 70’s. It is pointless of Connelley to cite selected later studies when the scare had ended, rather than the earlier studies when it was in full swing.”
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tonyb
Dr. Reitze’s current CV from the University of Utah lists “climate change policy” as an “area of expertise,” and he has published numerous articles on climate change, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, etc. The climate alarms may change, hotter or colder, but the “experts” remain the same. 🙁
Our vision of the future died in the 70’s. Before the 70’s, people had ideas of how the future should be. Then these doomsday ideas came by. Unsurprisingly, those were times of personal liberty, sex drugs and rock&roll. I guess some people did not take the changes well and decided to find a way to scare people back in submission, like the Church did before that. But by then the Wrath of God had no more power over the People.
The list of proposed solutions is all about control of the people but nothing about the change of technologies to make combustion engines more efficient and less polluting. I don’t think they even thought that people could make better technologies. But we did.
I was never about protecting the people, but more about controlling them.
cipherstream says:
March 1, 2013 at 10:17 am
“I can remember the “global cooling” scare from when I was a child in grade school.”
I want to be sure to echo this sentiment and bear witness. They scared the pants off of us back then with incessant assurances of the coming Ice Age. Young people are so vulnerable to being influenced by cherry picked source re-writing of history, so for all you babes in the woods, this is the straight dope: Yes, the Global Cooling scare was real. Yes, they assured us that scientists were all in agreement about it. Yes, they proposed the same “solutions” they are proposing now for Global Warming. No, world history did not begin on the day you were born.
At least this time around, we have a huge paper trail, all captured on the internet, so that nobody can deny that they were serious about Global Warming when the next Global Cooling scare comes around.