Ice Age Scare of the 70's

SSDD

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So there is little doubt that the ice age scare of the 70's actually happened...and everyone who was anyone in climate science was onboard with that scare. The attempt by warmers to erase this embarrassment from history is understandable, but luckily for all of us, the CIA documented the players and their positions at the time.

According to a CIA report in 1974, outlining the state of climate science, the consensus position, and the ramifications to national security if the predictions came to pass, all of the relevant agencies....agencies who were researching the climate were in agreement that a new little ice age was on its way...the report further outlines the groundwork being laid by the scare for the formation of the climate science establishment as it exists today.

As chronicled by the CIA...NOAA was onboard with the cooling prediction....NCAR was onboard with the cooling prediction....the National Academy of Science was onboard with the prediction of cooling....the National Science Foundation was onboard with the prediction of cooling, CRU at East Anglia was onboard with the predicted cooling, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton was onboard with the predicted cooling.

[/quote=CIA]n the summer of 1973, the Wisconsin Plan for Climate Research was presented to the National Security Council. NOAA and the National Science Foundation were requested to review this plan to suggest how it should be implemented. The Wisconsin plan stimulated activity in many agencies.[/quote]

CIA [B said:
]In the Fall of 1973, three agencies sin the government became active in the development of climatic research plans: NSF, NOAA and the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences established the Committee on Climatic Variation, chaired by Dr Larry Gates. The committed members completed tier recommendations for a National Climatic Research Plan in June of 1974. This plan is presently under assessment by the National Academy of Sciences. Its final approval is expected late this year. [/B]Early in 1974 NOAA began developing a plan which would include a Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment as suggested by preliminary recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences Committee

CIA said:
Leaders in climatology and economics are in agreement that a climatic change is taking place and that it has already caused major economic problems throughout the world. As it becomes more apparent to the nations around the world that the current trend is indeed a long term reality, new alignments will be made among nations to insure a secure supply of food resources.

So the CIA documents the fact that NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory were all in agreement that a cooling phase was on the way.

The only semi coherent claim anyone has made with regard to these agencies being documented by the CIA as being onboard with the cooling scare is that the CIA says whatever the hell it wants to in order to get its way (much as climate science does today) and that the rest of climate science was predicting warming.

My question to the warmers is "Exactly who else was there actively researching climate science to any real degree? I mean we have NOAA, NCAR, NAS, NSF, CRU, and GFDL were all in agreement that cooling was on the way...who else was there in 1974?
 
So there is little doubt that the ice age scare of the 70's actually happened...and everyone who was anyone in climate science was onboard with that scare. The attempt by warmers to erase this embarrassment from history is understandable, but luckily for all of us, the CIA documented the players and their positions at the time.

According to a CIA report in 1974, outlining the state of climate science, the consensus position, and the ramifications to national security if the predictions came to pass, all of the relevant agencies....agencies who were researching the climate were in agreement that a new little ice age was on its way...the report further outlines the groundwork being laid by the scare for the formation of the climate science establishment as it exists today.

As chronicled by the CIA...NOAA was onboard with the cooling prediction....NCAR was onboard with the cooling prediction....the National Academy of Science was onboard with the prediction of cooling....the National Science Foundation was onboard with the prediction of cooling, CRU at East Anglia was onboard with the predicted cooling, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton was onboard with the predicted cooling.

[/quote=CIA]n the summer of 1973, the Wisconsin Plan for Climate Research was presented to the National Security Council. NOAA and the National Science Foundation were requested to review this plan to suggest how it should be implemented. The Wisconsin plan stimulated activity in many agencies.

CIA [B said:
]In the Fall of 1973, three agencies sin the government became active in the development of climatic research plans: NSF, NOAA and the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences established the Committee on Climatic Variation, chaired by Dr Larry Gates. The committed members completed tier recommendations for a National Climatic Research Plan in June of 1974. This plan is presently under assessment by the National Academy of Sciences. Its final approval is expected late this year. [/B]Early in 1974 NOAA began developing a plan which would include a Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment as suggested by preliminary recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences Committee

CIA said:
Leaders in climatology and economics are in agreement that a climatic change is taking place and that it has already caused major economic problems throughout the world. As it becomes more apparent to the nations around the world that the current trend is indeed a long term reality, new alignments will be made among nations to insure a secure supply of food resources.

So the CIA documents the fact that NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory were all in agreement that a cooling phase was on the way.

The only semi coherent claim anyone has made with regard to these agencies being documented by the CIA as being onboard with the cooling scare is that the CIA says whatever the hell it wants to in order to get its way (much as climate science does today) and that the rest of climate science was predicting warming.

My question to the warmers is "Exactly who else was there actively researching climate science to any real degree? I mean we have NOAA, NCAR, NAS, NSF, CRU, and GFDL were all in agreement that cooling was on the way...who else was there in 1974?[/QUOTE]

1970s Global Cooling Scare Real Science


The 70s Ice Age Scare
 
I was at the first "Earth Day" on the Mall in DC back in 1970. They really pounded out the "coming ice age" stuff.

"Billy at Earth Day?" you say. Of course. It was my senior year of high school, and events of that sort were good places to meet girls and score weed. :bye1:
 
Yup OP it was a big media scare, which the man made climate change cult, now trys to denie...

Popular Technology.net 1970s Global Cooling Alarmism


1970 - Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 - Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 - New Ice Age May Descend On Man(Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Prospect A Chilling One(The Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 - Pollution's 2-way 'Freeze' On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 - Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 - Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century (The Boston Globe, April 16, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 - U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic (The New York Times, July 18, 1970)
1970 - Dirt Will Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 - Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground(Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 - Pollution Might Lead To Another Ice Age (The Schenectady Gazette, March 22, 1971)
1971 - Pollution May Bring Ice Age - Scientist Rites Risk (The Windsor Star, March 23, 1971)
1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 - Ice Age Around the Corner(Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
 
The popular Television show
In search of.......
Starring Leonard Nimoy 1978


The Coming Ice Age - 1978:
 
Didn't really expect the warmers to have anything much to say, but I would like to know, considering the position taken by NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, who else they claim was actively researching the climate and claiming that warming, not cooling was in our future.
 
Didn't really expect the warmers to have anything much to say, but I would like to know, considering the position taken by NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, who else they claim was actively researching the climate and claiming that warming, not cooling was in our future.

They are too invested in the current scam which is simply a derivative of the old scam.. Different outcomes but the medicine prescribed by these fools is always the same ... Give us money and your freedoms and we will save you...
 
So I guess that they are admitting that the global cooling scare in the 70;s was real and that there was consensus among the climate community as it existed at the time....and that their claims that the scare never happened were just so much smoke and mirrors meant to try and rewrite history.

In politics and the law, silence implies consent...I suppose it applies in debate as well. None of the warmers are stepping up to say even who else there was in the early 70's researching climate other than the players already named. The bibliography is extensive in that CIA paper and covers about everyone who was anyone at the time. The scientific consensus at the time was that it was going to get cold....and get cold rather quickly. Just another instance of the consensus being wrong. When it didn't get cold global warming was born...when that didn't work out, they decided to opt for an unfalsifiable hypothesis and call it climate change...can't be wrong there considering that the climate is always changing...the anthropogenic part is a complete failure though.
 
Because you are just too stupid to justify the effort.

There was no consensus for a coming ice age in the 70s.

What interest there was in the idea was weak and short-lived.

The point has ZERO bearing on the current situation. If you actually think these points somehow overturn the data to be found in the IPCC's assessment reports and the thousands of peer-reviewed research papers on which they're based, then you are just a stupid as I have always found you to be.
 
Because you are just too stupid to justify the effort.

There was no consensus for a coming ice age in the 70s.

What interest there was in the idea was weak and short-lived.

The point has ZERO bearing on the current situation. If you actually think these points somehow overturn the data to be found in the IPCC's assessment reports and the thousands of peer-reviewed research papers on which they're based, then you are just a stupid as I have always found you to be.

NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory were all in agreement that a cooling phase was on the way....who else was there?

And if you believe the IPCC, you are a far bigger dupe than me or any other skeptic....What is the IPCC's estimate of climate sensitivity to CO2?...What was it 10 years ago? What do you think it will be in 10 more years? The published literature has that number moving steadily towards zero...
 
At any given moment in time, the "published literature" is the best we've got. We now have a very large amount of published literature that says the world is getting warming and the primary cause is the greenhouse effect acting on human GHG emissions and deforestation.

What have you got?

Shite.
 
Because you are just too stupid to justify the effort.

There was no consensus for a coming ice age in the 70s.

What interest there was in the idea was weak and short-lived.

The point has ZERO bearing on the current situation. If you actually think these points somehow overturn the data to be found in the IPCC's assessment reports and the thousands of peer-reviewed research papers on which they're based, then you are just a stupid as I have always found you to be.

NOAA, NCAR, the National Academy of Science, the National Science Foundation, CRU, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory were all in agreement that a cooling phase was on the way....who else was there?

And if you believe the IPCC, you are a far bigger dupe than me or any other skeptic....What is the IPCC's estimate of climate sensitivity to CO2?...What was it 10 years ago? What do you think it will be in 10 more years? The published literature has that number moving steadily towards zero...

The loss of their media monopoly was the worst thing that ever happened to Progressives
 
At any given moment in time, the "published literature" is the best we've got.

And in any young branch of science...and climate science is certainly a young branch..the published literater is usually wrong until all factors and their interactions are well understood....we aren't even close with regard to all the factors that drive the climate...

We now have a very large amount of published literature that says the world is getting warming and the primary cause is the greenhouse effect acting on human GHG emissions and deforestation.

Plenty of literature, but not a shred of empirical evidence proving any of it...and in fact, the empirical evidence leans heavily toward some other factor other than greenhouse gasses being responsible. You can only manipulate data so far when reality is diverging so far away from predictions.

What have you got?

The requisite intelligence to recognize a scam when I see one.
 
Pity the poor deniers. Yet another one of their big lie techniques still isn't working, and they're flailing in rage now.

SSDD, what do you hope to accomplish by ignoring the actual science and raving about the CIA, other than to confirm you'll stoop to any level of dishonesty in the name of your cult? Remember, we already know that.

And Frank, you did get the memo that only racists wave the Confederate flag, right? That even includes faked campaign buttons.
 
SSDD

The requisite intelligence to recognize a scam when I see one.

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Posting a myth concerning '70's global cooling is hardly evidence of that. The subject has been chewed on endlessly, and the PNAS paper of 1975 was really the last word on it, and hardly supports your position.
 
Climate "Science" started warning about "Global Cooling" and "New Ice Age" 30 years later, switched to Global Warming, 5 years after that, switched again to "Climate Change", yet they insist "the 'science' is settled"
 
Pity the poor deniers. Yet another one of their big lie techniques still isn't working, and they're flailing in rage now.

SSDD, what do you hope to accomplish by ignoring the actual science and raving about the CIA, other than to confirm you'll stoop to any level of dishonesty in the name of your cult? Remember, we already know that.

And Frank, you did get the memo that only racists wave the Confederate flag, right? That even includes faked campaign buttons.

The Confederate flag was waved proudly by Democrats fighting to keep their slaves; like 'global cooling' it's a part of history better not stuffed down the memory hole
 
The Confederate flag was waved proudly by Democrats fighting to keep their slaves; like 'global cooling' it's a part of history better not stuffed down the memory hole

And democrats were still trying to keep blacks down in the 60s...most people are unaware that if it weren't for republicans, the civil rights laws would never have passed.

Seems that only the hairball is still trying to defend the obviously indefensible claim that the cooling scare never happened...
 
SSDD

The requisite intelligence to recognize a scam when I see one.

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Posting a myth concerning '70's global cooling is hardly evidence of that. The subject has been chewed on endlessly, and the PNAS paper of 1975 was really the last word on it, and hardly supports your position.

And which paper might that be rocks...I checked the index for all articles, month by month published in 1975 and none mentioned climate beyond natural selection and rodents and a mention of climate in the botany section regarding the growth of certain plants. There was no paper published in 1975 making any prediction regarding warming or cooling....clearly the NAS was on board with the cooling claims as they reviewed the existing work on the subject for the CIA...
 

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