Wait, what?!: Back when CO2 was at "safe" levels, the New York Times admitted that "man is still helpless against the vast and still largely unpredictable forces that frequently go berserk in his immediate environment—hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes"

We tried to weaponize the weather - Salon.com

Noting deaths all over the Pacific Rim, the New York Times [around 1960?] reported that the Chilean earthquake “gave tragic testimony that in this age of the conquest of the atom and of triumphs in outer space man is still helpless against the vast and still largely unpredictable forces that frequently go berserk in his immediate environment—hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes.” [Via MT]