Manmade Global Warming - New Extremes, page-120

Thursday, February 28, 2013

1970s Global Cooling Alarmism

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."– George Santayana


"The scientists and computers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were confidently predicting that the frigid weather would continue. The chilling pronouncement of NOAA's senior climatologist: 'The forecast is for no change.' "
- Time Magazine, 1977

During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls.

e.g. "Pollution Prospect A Chilling One" (The Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)

"We will be forced to sacrifice democracy by the laws that will protect us from further pollution."- Dr. Arnold Reitze, 1970

1	The Argus-Press, January 26, 1970

This media hype was found in major newspapers, magazines, books and on television;

"Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way."
- Leonard Nimoy, 1978