Did scientists predict an impending ice age in the 1970s? (death, military)
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You can't fool those who lived through it. We thought the world would freeze and no food would grow. When the world didn't freeze those who predicted it had to change their tune and went to warming. When that didn't happen they had to go with "climate change." LOL, the climate is always changing so what else will they come up with? The sky is falling? Oh wait, that has been done before as well. Chicken Little, remember?
Oh well, some are getting mega wealthy from it all.
You can't fool those who lived through it. We thought the world would freeze and no food would grow. When the world didn't freeze those who predicted it had to change their tune and went to warming. When that didn't happen they had to go with "climate change." LOL, the climate is always changing so what else will they come up with? The sky is falling? Oh wait, that has been done before as well. Chicken Little, remember?
Oh well, some are getting mega wealthy from it all.
That was the point of it from the beginning. Money.
The typical go-to argument of the climate change deniers is that "Scientists predicted an ice age back in the 70's." Well as usual, they are being less than honest or chose to simply take cues from their chosen right wing demagogue. While a small percentage did, the majority were already claiming quite the opposite.
Ever hear of the Population Bomb? Scientists in the 70's predicted massive famine by the 1980's. They also declared that India couldn't possibly feed 200 million more people. Meanwhile India proved them wrong by adding more than 500 million people since then
BUT America bought into it and most went to having just 2 children per couple, contracepting and aborting themselves out of existence. America will be a country of immigrants in the future. Not saying that is bad since the future belongs to the living.
You can't fool those who lived through it. We thought the world would freeze and no food would grow. When the world didn't freeze those who predicted it had to change their tune and went to warming. When that didn't happen they had to go with "climate change." LOL, the climate is always changing so what else will they come up with? The sky is falling? Oh wait, that has been done before as well. Chicken Little, remember?
Oh well, some are getting mega wealthy from it all.
Darn... I lived through it. And I feared nothing of the sort.
BUT America bought into it and most went to having just 2 children per couple, contracepting and aborting themselves out of existence. America will be a country of immigrants in the future. Not saying that is bad since the future belongs to the living.
Go get a copy of Asimov on Chemistry. Back in the 50's Isaac Asimov wrote a speculative piece titled something like "The End of Ice Ages" (I don't feel like digging it out of the basement to get the exact title). In it he speculates that man caused global warming due to the greenhouse effect from increased CO2 production will mean the end of ice ages forever.
How greenhouse gasses would effect man and the environment has been debated by scientists since Joseph Fourier first proposed the greenhouse effect the early 1800s.
The normal course of events over the eons has been continental drift and climate change.
It is egocentric to assume man has a hand in current changes whatever they may be. It is the storied strategy of a charlatan to extract profit from natural events not unlike a medicine man restoring the light after a solar eclipse.
Imagine focusing on prevention instead of promoting an adaptation strategy!
Without Al Gore and the internet, people have been successfully adapting to climate change as validated by their countless decendants who constitute the heavy Friday night traffic on roads such as the Garden State Parkway.
Subscribing to an attitude of respect, awareness and wise use of natural resources is the reference point that needs to be instilled. Militaristic, fanatic and theatrical attitudes create enemies of potential supporters.
And yes, way back when, the fear of a coming ice age was taught in college as was the world's food supply would be harvested from the sea.
The fable of human caused global warming makes a fine companion to Orson Wells, 'War of the Worlds' in Brown's Mill NJ and Henny Penney's cries that the 'sky is falling'.
If the earth evolves faster than we can adapt, we go away.
In retrospect we stand in stunned wonder that Copernicus was imprisoned for espousing the same theory Al Gore is trying to dispel. Man is not the center of the universe and doesn't even constitute a footnote on the earth's dynamic agenda.
Did scientists predict an impending ice age in the 1970s?
It's true, they did. Many also predicted a planetary conjunction in the 80's would cause massive earthquakes, reverse the poles and otherwise end life as we know it. Then the economy got better and the world was saved.
Of course, they also said we would drive flying cars, wear clean white jumpsuits all the time and battle cyborgs too. They were just a little bit off on a couple of things.
The morale of the story is "Just Say No" when the man on the corner asks you to lick his stamps or help him eat his brownies .
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As a 70's survivor
