Eco-Religion: Blast From the Past

Today marks an anniversary in Eco-Religion History. Thirty-One Years ago, Eco-Religionists made a valiant effort to take existing meteorological data and spin the world into a pending catastrophe! And politicians just wouldn’t listen to the experts, despite the fact that evidence showed we were all doomed! Billions of people were going to starve! Weather patterns indicated that mankind was having a negative effect on the weather, leading to the highest rate of disastrous natural weather phenomena to date!

Sound familiar? It should. These things have been said about global warming for years now. But when this was said 31 years ago, it was not about carbons causing a green-house effect. It was about carbons creating a blocking effect, keeping the sun from heating the earth, thus plunging the world, in ten years, into an…

ICE AGE!

From a NewsWeek Article, dated April 28, 1975. Copy Here.

“The Cooling World” – by Peter Gwynne
April 28, 1975 Newsweek

There are ominous signs that the Earth s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.

Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average.

Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the little ice age conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

Do you think Eco-religionists abandoned the whole Ice Age predictions because someone came up with a way to melt the ice caps, whereas, with global warming, there is no easy way to cool a planet?

And what is this about a cooling period in the 20th century? Eco-religionists constantly tell us that the Earth has been warming since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.

The fact is that this country is cleaner, more environmentally safe and sound, and more fuel efficient than 1975. Don’t let Junk Scientists or Eco-Religionsits tell you otherwise. Any attempt to frighten you and tell you otherwise should be treated with the same amount of skepticism as if someone were trying to convert you to Scientology, because they use fear tactics, guilt and bad science as the foundation to do so. Hat Tip to Moonbattery.