We might someday face a problem we cannot solve, but it will not be overpopulation, or global cooling, that other great scientific farce from that time.
Yep I remember reading about this when I was a kid
Today it's global warming; in the '70s it was the coming ice age
Many Seattleites pride themselves on a fanatical environmentalism that frankly defies reason. On Earth Day, we commonly hear dark predictions about the looming horrors of global warming (a typical example, “What is at stake [is] our ability to live on planet Earth,” Al Gore).
Yet not so long ago the news media issued dire warnings about global cooling and a coming Ice Age. Consider these headlines:
•“The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969.
•“Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970.
•“Science: Another Ice Age?” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.
•“The Ice Age Cometh!” Science News, March 1, 1975.
•“The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.
•“Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975.
•“In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975.
•“A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975.
•“Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.
Reporters told the public about global cooling in the same confident tone used in todayÂ’s coverage about global warming, creating the strong impression that no reasonable person could disagree
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