The 1970's Global Cooling Compilation – looks much like today

I find it particularly stupid that NCAR was worried about TOO MUCH arctic ice, and are now worried about TOO LITTLE. Do they really expect everything about this planet to be static? What kind of morons are these people??

@ur momisugly Jeff Alberts 7:31, indeed, thats twice in my life the media has attempted to stampede us into servitude. Hopefully this time the conditions are right to pay them back in kind.
Last seen reporting from the spring ice in Hudson Bay, works for me.
Who pulls the strings of our media?
Or is group think really that pervasive?
After this we will abolish political correctness and go back to physically educating bullying fools.
I notice some of the smarter ones, already fear this internet thingy.

I was pleased to someone mention Ponte’s book “The Cooling”. In the preface Ponte wrote,
“It is cold fact: the global cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species.”
It is standard alarmism that begins with a false premise and then appeals to emotions by threatening the children. It’s a pattern repeated many times since.
Another influential book, “The Weather Conspiracy”, was produced by journalists who called themselves The Impact Team. It was subtitled “The coming of the New Ice Age.” On the cover it asked an appropriate question, but then essentially ignored it in the book, “Have our weather patterns run amok? Or are they part of a natural and alarming timetable?” They tried to add credibility by adding a gold sticker on the cover advising it, “Includes two CIA Reports.”
Themes developed by the CIA reports are representative of academic and political thinking of the day. One CIA report was titled, “Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate”. It argues,
“Trying to provide adequate world food supplies will become a problem of over-riding priority in the years and decades immediately ahead -….Even in the most favorable circumstances predictable, with increased devotion of scarce resources and technical expertise, the outcome will be doubtful; in the event of adverse changes in climate, the outcome can only be grave”
The UN through the WMO carried out several studies on the impact of cooling on major agricultural regions.
In the Climate section of the CIA report is this comment.
“Far more disturbing is the thesis that the weather we call normal is, in fact highly abnormal and unusually felicitous in terms of supporting agricultural output. While still unable to explain how or why climate changes, or to predict the extent and duration of change, a number of climatologists are in agreement that the northern hemisphere, at least, is growing cooler.”
Geo-engineering was another activity that relates to the global warming alarmism. The Soviets proposed a dam across the Bering Straits to block the outflow of cold arctic water resulting in a warmer North Pacific and by connection around the high middle latitudes. Another proposal suggested large reflectors in geo-stationary orbit and directing solar energy to cold northern cities.

Great post. I’ve bookmarked it.
What would be great is to have a list of the surviving activists that authored or backed this screed back in the day, cross referenced with what they are saying about AGW (or whatever the current term is). Does anyone doubt that a substantial number are being paid for trotting out their well honed “climate doom” talks?
I’d love to read and share THAT list!

Great post, Anthony. Thanks for the effort.

Back when as an young engineer I together with some friends used to fix valve based data logging equipment for some young what would now be called environmentalists looking at the sulphur emissions of power stations. The fears then were more about cooling than warming. At the time this group of us had just learned about Fourier analysis to understand the way waveforms were built up and showed the clearly cyclical nature of the patterns but with no way of even trying to understand why they were that form. We showed even back then they were cyclic but they lost our support for them when instead of listening they dismissed us as the spanner merchants who fixed things after helping to get the evidence that gave rise to power station cleaning.
This cyclic nature shown up by the Fourier analysis is really clear on the rainfall patterns and can be transferred across to see the underlying temperature patterns where the dominant ripple can easily be removed to see the temperature aberration as it really exists. Sadly the climate scientist at the top are so convinced the science is settled they refuse to even contemplate any explanation outside CO2 based warming and only recruited like minded people to the profession for the last two decades.

This post and some comments nicely show that the argument goes from the right to the left. We need a global totalitarian rule. In order to attain that goal, all people should comply. People will comply if there is a global danger we can do something about. The latter excludes local enemies and global dangers we cannot do something about. Some remaining candidates are a pandemic and the climate. It does not matter whether the world cools, warms, or both, provided it is dangerous. We need some science for the justification of the danger and that we can influence the climate in the opposite direction.
Some reasons why the cooling scare of the sixties/seventies did not work fine. (1) The Cold War was considered more dangerous but this divided mankind, (2) the temperature record could not be manipulated enough, (3) there was no additional scare of rising see levels, (4) if carbon dioxide were the human factor, we should have produced more of that stuff, unless science had discovered that it is a coolant, (5) air pollution was already a concern of many decades before and for quite other reasons.

Honestly, if you could just make this a sticky for a while…

Poptech says:
March 1, 2013 at 8:46 pm
“Otter says: Hello Poptech! Permission to repost your article to Deviantart, if I may!
It should not be necessary to repost the whole thing, just summarize and link to it directly or here to Anthony.”
I recommend duplication. Skeptics are under constant attack; currently Roy Spencer, a few days ago the German EIKE, several times. Warmists are warming up for all out cyber war.

Anthony I could not find this piece by Fred Hoyle in your list: He rather fell out of fashion because of his views on continuous creation and a steady state universe.
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/ce120799.html

That is because it is from 1999 and the list is about the 70s.