The global warming of today is far preferable to the upcoming ice age that was being predicted by every mainstream news sources in the 1970s

[Drop Dead Fred]

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The global warming of today is far preferable to the upcoming ice age that was being predicted by every mainstream news sources in the 1970s

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) March 13, 2023 When I was a child in the 1970s, we were constantly being scared by mainstream news sources about the upcoming ice age that was being pre…

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The global warming of today is far preferable to the upcoming ice age that was being predicted by every mainstream news sources in the 1970s​

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

March 13, 2023

When I was a child in the 1970s, we were constantly being scared by mainstream news sources about the upcoming ice age that was being predicted.

It was absolutely terrifying.

Fortunately, the predicted ice age never came.

The global warming that we are experiencing today is far preferable to the upcoming ice age that was being predicted by every mainstream news source in the 1970s.

I am so, so very glad that those predictions did not come true.

Here are some examples of those predictions:

New York Times, February 23, 1969: “Worrying About a New Ice Age”

Science; Worrying About a New Ice Age

Washington Post, January 11, 1970: “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age: Scientists See Ice Age In the Future”

Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age

Boston Globe, April 16, 1970: “Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century”

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Washington Post, July 9, 1971: “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming”

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New York Times Jan. 27, 1972: “Climate Experts Assay Ice Age Clues”

Climate Experts Assay Ice Age Clues

The Guardian, January 29, 1974: “Space satellites show new ice age coming fast”

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Time, June 24, 1974: “Another Ice Age”

https://web.archive.org/web/20130917122641/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html

Newsweek, April 28, 1975: “The Cooling World”

Wayback Machine

New York Times, January 5, 1978: “International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30‐Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere”

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30‐Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere

In Search of… The Coming Ice Age (originally broadcast in 1978):

 

[shockedcanadian]

Well resesrched. I've watched enough of those survival type shows where peoples verbally re-enact their survival in extreme conditions to have decided thst I'd prefer to take my chances in a desert over a frozen mountain. Neither would be fun of course.

 

[1srelluc]

I'd prefer the winters we had in the 60s.....Just hit the cycle wrong I guess.

 

[francoHFW]

Total BS. it was on the cover of Time magazine and nobody gave a damn about it at the time.... slow news week...