Thursday, February 28, 2013
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
"Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way."
- Leonard Nimoy, 1978
While a silent majority of the scientific community may have been more skeptical, you ironically find one of the most outspoken supporters of modern day Al Gore style global warming alarmism was promoting global cooling in the 1970s, the late Dr. Steven Schneider;
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Life of Reason, George Santayana
* A couple of the news stories are duplicates in different papers with slightly different titles, this is intentional to show that these types of stories were not isolated to a certain regional paper.
Update:
From the BBC's 1974 documentary, "The Weather Machine";
"The ice age is due now anytime" - Professor George Kukla, Columbia University, 1974