At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age. -- Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
A high-priority government report warns of climate change that will lead to floods and starvation. Leading climatologists speak of a detrimental global climatic change, threatening the stability of most nations. The scenario is eerily familiar although the document never made public before dates from 1974. But heres the difference: it was written to respond to the threat of global cooling, not warming. And yes, it even mentions a consensus among scientists. -- Maurizio Morabito
Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse." He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B". -- October 19, 2009
According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a 10-year window of opportunity to solve global warming. According to the 1989 article, A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of eco-refugees, threatening political chaos.
