As the subzero ‘polar vortex’ that froze the nation turns into the latest selling point for global warmers, with even the White House getting in on the act, it is important to turn to history, because all this extreme weather hullabaloo has happened before.
Except, the situation was different, they were trying to tie it to global cooling, not warming.
“As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval…the trend shows no indication of reversing.”
Time magazine, June 24, 1974, “Another Ice Age?”
h/t to David Deming
You can read it here: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
From a guest post by David Middleton on the subject:
The full text of the article can be accessed through Steve Goddard’s Real Science.
TIME, like most of the mainstream-ish media, has acted like a climate weathervane over the years…
Dan Gainor compiled a great timeline of media alarmism (both warming and cooling) in his Fire and Ice essay.
While the 1977 TIME cover was a fake, this 1975 magazine cover and article were very real…
Energy and Climate: Studies in Geophysics was a 1977 National Academies publication. It featured what appears to be the same temperature graph, clearly demonstrating a mid-20th century cooling trend…
The mid-20th Century cooling trend is clearly present in the instrumental record, at least in the northern hemisphere…
So, why are the warmists so obsessed with denying this? Is the mid-20th century cooling period so “inconvenient” that it has to be erased from history like the Medieval Warm Period?
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
A question. We had a “derecho” pass through may area in recent years. I didn’t remember ever hearing the term before. Now we just had a “polar vortex” pass through and, again, I don’t remember ever hearing the term before. Both terms seem to be legitimate descriptions of weather events.
Such things have happened before but is it only in the last few years that such terms are being used to describe them to the public or have I just not noticed them before?
PS I live in central Ohio if that makes a difference.
To Gunga Din:
The “polar vortex” has been around for a long time. Essentially,
it forms nearly every winter in some location in the far North. It
may persist for quite some time. For example, when the the
U.S. east coast had several very strong snowstorms during the
winter of 2009-2010, this was because the polar vortex was over
SE Canada. This resulted in steering several lows into an optimal
path for delivery of strong east coast snowstorms.
I had never heard the term “derecho” before 2009. However,
the term had evidently been coined by a meteorologist as far
back as the late 1800s. I believe the “derecho” events in the
U.S. Midwest of 2009 were mentioned in a WUWT posting
a few months later–the essence of the post was that such
events occur normally every few years.
Our good Web log host may be able to shed some insight into
whether the term “derecho” was in widespread use during the
early stages of his career as a working meteorologist.
Whoops! My error. I did a search on WUWT for the
relevant posting on the occurrence of a “derecho”.
I found that the posting was not in reference to the
Midwest “derecho” of May, 2009, but was in reference
to a “derecho” in June, 2012, which began near Chicago
and reached the Chesapeake Bay (including the the
suburbs of Washington, DC) before dissipating.