Let cooler heads prevail: The media heat up over global warming

[DeclinetoState]

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | <!-- attribution --><!-- BEGIN ARTICLE -->So, "the debate is over." Time magazine says so. Last week's cover story exhorted readers to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried," and ABC News concurred in several stories. So did Montana's governor, speaking on ABC. And there was polling about global warming, gathered by Time and ABC in collaboration.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will1.asp

[Naturalized-Texan]

The following paragraph from George Will's column is priceless, especially when those who believe the hypothesis that global warming is being caused by human activities claim that global cooling was not a concern in the 1970s:

While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling. Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."

[Timberwolf]

Been sayin' that for a couple years or more...I remember all the shrill harpies screeching, "The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!" concerning global cooling. Coincidentally, they are the same clueless "well-educated" morons who have their panties in a knot over global warming.

They are also the same lot of well educated idiots who were "all in a tizzy" about the "hole in the ozone" being caused by CFCs. We now know that the "hole" in the ozone is chiefly caused by very cold winters in the far northern/southern lattitudes.

Good post, Tex...I thoroughly enjoyed it. :thumb:

[DeclinetoState]

Now, let's hear from Bob Arctor to tell us that those weren't "real" scientists using peer-reviewed data published in legitimate scientific journals in the '70s, but that we're now getting "real" scientists publishing their peer-reviewed findings in legitimate scientific journals today.

[Telit laikitiz]

"They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see--germs, chemicals, additives,pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable!" --page 541, State of Fear, Michael Crichton

[Naturalized-Texan]

The following graph from the Newsweek article referenced by George Will ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975), graphically illustrates why scientists in the 1970s were in a state of panic about the probability of an imminent ice age:

http://users4.ev1.net/~rwadding/globalcooling.jpg

[DeclinetoState]

Notice that the chart is calibrated in tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, a very small amount.

[Native American]

Notice that the chart is calibrated in tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, a very small amount.

In fact, it's a ridiculously small amount. Smaller even than the accuracy that Man is able to attain. Especially back in 1880.

That's why the entire "global warming" theory is such a laughable joke.

[Naturalized-Texan]

Notice that the chart is calibrated in tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, a very small amount.
And the charts that global warming alarmists tout to support their hypothesis that global warming is being caused by human activities are calibrated in tenths of a degree Celsius, a very small amount.

[Timberwolf]

And the charts that global warming alarmists tout to support their hypothesis that global warming is being caused by human activities are calibrated in tenths of a degree Celsius, a very small amount.
But, but, but TEX!! It is a LARGER, very small amount!!! sheesh, get a clue!!! LOL

[DeclinetoState]

Shouldn't global warming really be measured in terms of Kelvins rather than degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? Isn't it more meaningful to compare changes in temperature vis a vis distance from absolute zero, rather than from some arbitrary zero point, such as the freezing point of water or the lowest temperature that can be expected in a given area?