Whatever Happened to Global Cooling?

Before there was “global warming” threatening the Earth, there was “global cooling.” All through the 70’s scientist was warning of the great threat of “global cooling.” That is right the Earth was cooling off back then. There were severe droughts lasting years in Africa causing catastrophic numbers of famine victims, record rain fall in the U.S., Pakistan and Japan causing some of the worst flooding in centuries. Canada suffered from a cold rainy spring bringing small wheat harvests. Some predicted it would become so bad that another Ice Age was coming.

Here is an insert from a June 24, 1974 Time Magazine:

…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.

Another Ice Age! Oh my…well I wonder what could be the cause of such things? Surely it could not be man could it?

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.

Say what??? Burning fuel??? I thought that is what caused “global warming.” I mean is this not the exact opposite of the so called “green house effect?”

In this article “The Cooling World” from an April 28, 1975 Newsweek we are told of some outrageous solutions proposed to solve the crises of “global cooling.” Here is one:

…They (Scientists) concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the artic ice cap by covering it with black soot…

Wow…can you imagine if we had taken that advice…We would be in pretty bad shape today.

There is also something I found very interesting in the Newsweek article. I want you to look at the Average Temperature Change Chart. Do you notice anything about it? Notice from 1880 to the mid 1940’s the Earth’s temperature was increasing. Would that be a “global warming” period?

Could it be temperature change is just a cycle of warming and cooling?

I am not a scientist, never played one on TV, and have never stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, but from what I continue to read on the subject of “climate change” continues to support my original theory on “global warming.”

There is no doubt in the time we live in the Earth’s temperature is rising, just as it has before, and just like before, it is rising after a cooling cycle, neither caused by the work of man kind.

The only hot air threatening the Earth is the hot air coming out of Al Gore’s mouth.