By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Watch this historical record of predictions for global cooling in the 1970s and compare it with the apocalyptic predictions of warming today. The Emperor has no clothes. We are in the Pleistocene Ice Age.
The 1970s Cooling Scare Was Real https://t.co/AIzdnenEVr via @YouTube pic.twitter.com/bSxnPsg9rh— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) December 22, 2021
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Late ’70s, the CBC National, then hosted by Peter Mansbridge, ran a roughly 10 minute documentary during its evening news hour about what seemed to be the return of the ice age, narrated by Adrian Clarkson…I know this because I watched it.
Shortened growing seasons, global crop failures, increasingly severe winters, etc., the end of the world as we know it is nigh.
Good luck trying to find this in the CBC archives! I can’t find it…but maybe someone here is better at such searches than I???
That should read “Adrienne Clarkson”.
“Everybody complains about the weather nobody does anything about it.”
It’s still true that nobody CAN do anything about the weather.
But some have learned to profit from it by pretending they can.
Earth is colder when the solar wind is stronger, as in the early to mid 1970’s, because ENSO and the AMO change inversely to changes in the solar wind strength. The AMO was much colder, and there were multi-year La Nina conditions, but the UK and Europe were toasting, so was California. That’s all driven by a positive NAO/AO regime.
Attribution to a cooling effect from industrial aerosols is highly questionable, as low altitude aerosols exacerbate land heatwaves considerably. As with the hot UK summer of 1783 with fumes and dust from the Laki eruption, heavy industrial air pollution with the record high UK max temperatures in Easter 2011 and through 22-27 Feb 2019, the Moscow 2010 summer heatwave with forest fire smoke in the air, and in Syracuse Sicily in August 2021 with fire smoke.
Solar plasma temperature, density, and pressure:
I loved those winters.
I know it was real from its imprint on popular culture. There are a few cartoons and some sci-fi short stories that I saw and read in the 1980s that prominently featured pollution causing global cooling, and either leading to an ice age or or a world covered in soot and smog.
Since I was only 4 in 1980, I don’t remember the height of the scare, but those artifacts left an impression on me as a child.
One thing I remember was that Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was at the enter of that, and the very same Woods Hole was a leader when the flipped to alarmism about warming. A second center of that was East Anglia, and they, too flippedd when flipping was a bigger bandwagon, but early on. Cooling didn’t make for grant money, as I have underrstood it over the years. But warming sure did.
Like others here, I remember the period from the winter of 1976-77 all the way through the winter of 1984-85 was freaking HORRIBLE cold, and not a little bit of blizzard-like weather. That last winter, between Rockford and Chiaggo in my town the temp got down to -34F. I NEVER want to do that again. I had lived at the same latitude for most of the previous decade, and had not run into anything like that period. I simply could not figure out why Chicago was so darned frigid – shortly after I got there. I’d never heard of it being THAT cold.
It was just as cold in the decade of the 1910’s as it was in the decade of the 1970’s, according to the unmodified, U.S. surface temperature chart.
The temperaures cooled from the 1880’s to the 1910’s, then warmed to the 1930’s, then cooled again to the 1970’s, then warmed again to 1998, then flatlined (discounting El Nino’s) to 2016/2020, and have cooled 0.6C since that time.
The cooling from 1940 to 1980 was equivalent to about 2.0C of cooling (according to the US chart). So the 0.6C of present cooling means we are about 1.4C away from the temperatures of the 1970’s.
Here’s the U.S. surface temperature chart (Hansen 1999), shown next to a bogus Hockey Stick chart. Note the differnce in cooling from 1940 to 1980, on both charts. The Hockey Stick chart downplays the amount of cooling that took place during this period.
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research//briefs/1999_hansen_07/
Hi Tom
It’s more insidious than that.
The left graph is the USA, right graph is the world.
The USA has the best continuous records but doesn’t show the right info. Since modified which you can see if you go on the GISS website and graph the same 5 year mean 1880-2000
The world graph is made up of data points that are primarily cities, the only place they kept even partial records in most of the world.
And so of course that World graph is pretty much entirely UHI corruption
I was taught this shiite in high school and that the world would run out of oil energy , made me think its the the end of the world , no point in having children etc . How times have changed but not peoples thinking .
Ironically, much of what was said about the dangers of cooling (now falsely being attributed to “climate change”) was true. Cooling is in fact, far more dangerous, although we can certainly adapt, and have far more of the capability to adapt now. Good thing, because cooling might be coming, if not already here. How much cooling no one can predict, but another LIA type of cooling is certainly possible. We should be planning for that by doing the complete opposite of what the Climate Caterwaulers want us to.
Calling is not possible it is inevitable
A new glaciation period is also inevitable
They just jumped the gun by looking at the previous 30 years and then extrapolating forever.
Now where else have I read something similar
Three different thoughts come to mind.
1) In 1973 I was in third grade. I remember the teacher telling us that a new ice age was coming. She wasn’t alarmed and she didn’t blather on about it, she just mentioned it as an apparently established fact. I specifically remember this because I was fascinated at the idea even at that young age. I imagined big cities in constant winter conditions and wondered how we would all deal with it.
2) While in college, one of my geology professors told the class that if a process takes less than ten thousand years to occur, geologists refer to it as “instantaneous.” Current and near-term conditions matter to human beings, but arguing about trends that occur over years or decades or even centuries is pointless.
3) The trap that too many people seem to fall into is, “If this trend continues….” That was the main reason for the global cooling scare, and that’s the main reason for the global warming scare. The trend never continues! It’s a “trend!” Trends go up, trends go down, trends fluctuate. Much peace and sanity would ensue if people realized the nature of trends.
Alarmists think trends go on forever.
I remember it very clearly- and all the experts who so damn sure about it. Makes all this politicized “science” clear for the junk it is. It’s incredibly frustrating that they just keep on lying and lying and lying.
Fear served hot or cold.