19 scary NY Times 'extreme' weather headlines going back to 1888

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Doing Advance Work: 19 scary NY Times 'extreme' weather headlines going back to 1888, 'cooling' panic in 1975, now claim 2011 historically damaging, oops




. Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea -
Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs; Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap, NY Times, 1969
By WALTER SULLIVAN February 20, 1969
Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that theArctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.


CHANGE IN CLIMATE KILLING PARK TREES; NY Times, 1919

There Has Been a Decided Decrease in Rainfall and Humidity Here in Five Years.HAVOC IN CENTRAL PARK Record Cold Killed 4,000, but Poor Soil Is Chief Cause of Loss–Suggestions for Restoration.
The New York Times, November 9, 1919
New York’s climate has changed considerably in the last twenty years, and that is one of the reasons for thewholesale death of trees in Central Park, according to Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forestry Association, who has written in the current issue of American Forestry an extended review of the causes of tree failure in Central Park



SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER;
But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change, NY Times, 1961
By WALTER SULLIVAN January 30, 1961
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



Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth, NY Times, 1975
By WALTER SULLIVAN December 21, 1975,
A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billionto 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.


Winters Since ‘40 Found Colder In Studies by Weather Bureau;Data Indicate,a Reversal of a Warming Trend That Began in 1888, NY Times, 1961

By WALTER SULLIVAN. January 25, 1961
Winters throughout the world have been getting steadily colder since 1940, according to a study carried out by the United States Weather Bureau.

 

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These are interesting...

Doing Advance Work: 19 scary NY Times 'extreme' weather headlines going back to 1888, 'cooling' panic in 1975, now claim 2011 historically damaging, oops




. Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea -
Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs; Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap, NY Times, 1969
By WALTER SULLIVAN February 20, 1969
Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that theArctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.


CHANGE IN CLIMATE KILLING PARK TREES; NY Times, 1919

There Has Been a Decided Decrease in Rainfall and Humidity Here in Five Years.HAVOC IN CENTRAL PARK Record Cold Killed 4,000, but Poor Soil Is Chief Cause of Loss–Suggestions for Restoration.
The New York Times, November 9, 1919
New York’s climate has changed considerably in the last twenty years, and that is one of the reasons for thewholesale death of trees in Central Park, according to Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forestry Association, who has written in the current issue of American Forestry an extended review of the causes of tree failure in Central Park



SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER;
But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change, NY Times, 1961
By WALTER SULLIVAN January 30, 1961
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



Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth, NY Times, 1975
By WALTER SULLIVAN December 21, 1975,
A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billionto 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.


Winters Since ‘40 Found Colder In Studies by Weather Bureau;Data Indicate,a Reversal of a Warming Trend That Began in 1888, NY Times, 1961

By WALTER SULLIVAN. January 25, 1961
Winters throughout the world have been getting steadily colder since 1940, according to a study carried out by the United States Weather Bureau.

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