Farmers Cool On Warming

Global Warming Politics

The Almanac then presents three special pages of analysis: ‘How Solar Goes Polar’; ‘How Oceans Chill the Air’; and, ‘The Case for a Cool Climate’.

These are all worth a read.

“The Past Is Always A Rebuke To The Present”

But, above all, I love their brilliant ‘Time Line’. Here are just a few selected entries [you should, however, relish the whole (here), which is also niftily illustrated (see title picture)]:

1895: from The New York Times - “Geologists think that the world may be frozen up again”;

1923: from The Washington Post - “The Ice Age is Coming Here”;

1933: from The New York Times - “America is in longest warm spell since 1776”;

1939: from TIME Magazine - “weathermen have no doubt that ... the world is growing warmer”;

1960s: cold prevails worldwide, so that both TIME Magazine and Newsweek predict “the coming Ice Age”;

1979: from The New York Times - “Plan for the Study of Dome over Town is Approved.” This refers to Winooski, Vermont, and to protecting the town from the coming freeze with a big dome. 1980 experiences a heat wave ... ;

1998: from The New York Times - “Earth Temperature in 1998 is Reported at Record High”;

2007: from the International Herald Tribune - “First Major Snow in Buenos Aires since 1918.” Australia records its coldest June;

2008: from the International Herald Tribune - “Snow Day in Baghdad” [see title picture].

No further comment is surely required. Anybody with even a smidgen of a sense of history knows that the whole ‘global warming’ caboodle is ‘presentism’ gone mad.