Thursday, August 23, 2012

It's fascinating to take a detailed look at what Time mag told us about global cooling in 1974: It's been happening for three decades; it shows no signs of reversing; it's causing bizarre and unpredictable weather, including drought in Africa; it may be caused by fuel burning, it could be catastrophic for food supplies, etc

A Fresh Look at the Difference Between Climate Trends and Variations - NYTimes.com
[The fair-and-balanced Revkin provides a graph that conveniently starts in the early 1970s, right after the climate had been "growing gradually cooler for the past three decades"]  What other innovative graphics, animations or other output, to your eye, helps cut through confusion or disinformation related to global warming?
Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made 'Global Cooling' | NewsBusters.org
From the Jun 24, 1974, Time Magazine, entitled: "Another Ice Age?"
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.
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Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought.
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Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun.
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Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
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Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.

The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."

2 comments:

F. said...

For several more examples of Time Magazine's long history of articles pushing climate alarmism, see:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/why-global-warming-hoax-cant-be-killed/

F.Swemson

far2right said...

Well, there you have it folks.

The CAA was significantly amended in 1977. It is obvious that EPA's war on dust emissions is responsible for the warming since 1974.

The correlation is undeniable.