How Global Cooling Threatened The World’s Food SupplyAPRIL 19,...

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    How Global Cooling Threatened The World’s Food Supply

    APRIL 19, 2024
    tags: 1970's, sahel

    By Paul Homewood

    It was not just the US which had catastrophic weather in the 1970s.

    This article in the NOAA magazine of April 1974 shows just how worried scientists and governments were about global cooling:

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    http://web.archive.org/web/20171006183045/http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/journals/noaa/QC851U461974oct.pdf#page=5

    This chart for the India Monsoon highlights the major switch from bountiful rainfall during the period of global warming to the widespread droughts of the 1960s to 80s:

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    https://mol.tropmet.res.in/monsoon-interannual-timeseries/


 
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