EAllusion wrote:
Given the number of heat records being broken around the globe in the recent heat wave, I’m surprised by the relative dearth of climate change coverage. The press often needs a hook to discuss the issue, and this seems like a prime one.
It’s becoming more and more clear that we are not going to act in time to avert relatively catastrophic outcomes. It’s hard not to understand the issue and not feel a certain amount of despair.
incessant is the word that comes to mind, which leads to familiarity which leads to contempt.
Climate control has reached chicken little proportions - whether the sky is falling or is not, once again we see a saturation that renders the public ambivalent...score another one for human adaptation.
Point being - the "catastrophe" call has been an ongoing Y2K where most of us here have already experienced several climate-doomsdays that have come and gone. I am becoming more and more accustomed to the idea that climate change is nothing more than an opportunity for dire political action, because protection from pollution/climate requires a sacrifice of democracy (but that is another topic).
Washington Post, January 11, 1970: Headline: “Colder Winters Held [sic] Dawn of New Ice Age / Scientists See Ice Age In the Future”“Get a grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come. That’s the long-range weather forecast being given out by ‘climatologists,’ the people who study very long-term world weather trends….
“Some of them [climatologists] say the world is in a ‘cold snap’ that started in 1950 and which could last hundreds of years, even bringing on the start of another Ice Age.New York Times, May 21, 1975: Headline: “Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead”“Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. Hints that it may already have begun are evident.Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century (Boston Globe, April 16, 1970)
U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
British Expert on Climate Change Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere(Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
Ice Age On Its Way, Scientist Says (Toledo Blade, December 13, 1972)
‘Man-made Ice Age’ Worries Scientists (The Free Lance-Star, June 22, 1973)
Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
Ominous Changes in the World’s Weather (PDF) (Fortune, February 1974)
Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, NASA Says (Beaver Country Times, December 4, 1974)
Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator, March 2, 1975)
The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
The Ice Age Cometh… (New York Magazine, January 31, 1977)
The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
Space Mirrors Proposed To Prevent Crop Freezes (Bangor Daily News, February 7, 1977)
We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
Large Glacial Buildup Could Mean Ice Age (Spokane Daily Chronicle, June 5, 1979)
New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
"Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice" - Robert Frost