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The Cooling World - Global Cooling --- first printed in Newsweek, 1975
Newsweek ^ | April 28, 1975 | staff writer

Posted on 12/30/2004 9:19:44 AM PST by bedolido

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 regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

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. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at globalclimate.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; cooling; global; warming; world
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I remember when this was the "hot" topic (so to speak)
1 posted on 12/30/2004 9:19:45 AM PST by bedolido
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"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."

HAHAH!

2 posted on 12/30/2004 9:27:56 AM PST by burrian
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To: bedolido
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.

Yep. And now global warming is to blame for tornados. if only we could have kept the exact same temperatures we would never have tornados...

3 posted on 12/30/2004 9:36:00 AM PST by Always Right
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To: bedolido
I was in college during the mid 70s. I can recall a number of occasions where some of the instructors stated that we were entering another ice age.
4 posted on 12/30/2004 9:38:32 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: bedolido

How's the Iceberg Lettuce crop this year? Fart buncha smellers ain't they?


5 posted on 12/30/2004 9:49:56 AM PST by Waco
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To: bedolido

We are still DOOMED.


6 posted on 12/30/2004 9:58:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: Always Right

Everybody knows that trailer parks cause tornados.


7 posted on 12/30/2004 9:59:07 AM PST by Big Digger (If you can keep your head when others are losing theirs, you must be a Republican)
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To: bedolido

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children!!!!/scsm


8 posted on 12/30/2004 10:00:21 AM PST by herewego (based on a true story)
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tag


9 posted on 12/30/2004 10:06:42 AM PST by flashbunny (Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
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To: bedolido

I gather it is much easier for liberals to annoint themselves as "holier than thou" prophets of doom:

(1) if liberals condemn sinners for their "excess" generation of green-house gases (due to excess SUVs, excess air-conditioning, excess heating etc. ad nauseum) rather than

(2) if liberals condemn sinners for their "insufficent" generation of those green-house gases.

Hence, the self-serving redefinition of our greatest "environmental threat" as global "warming".


10 posted on 12/30/2004 10:10:10 AM PST by pfony1
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To: bedolido
Don't worry the wackos have this figured out.
The new mantra is that we are experiencing "climate change".
This means that any "unusual" weather can be blamed on human activity; cooling, heating, spring coming to early or too late, whatever happens.
Anything bad that happens is the result of humans. In other words people in western countries are bad. They shouldn't reproduce, drive cars, eat food other than grass or dirt and should live in caves.
11 posted on 12/30/2004 10:17:34 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland
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To: BenLurkin

It was all Bush's fault ... even back in the 1970s!!!!!


12 posted on 12/30/2004 10:20:51 AM PST by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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To: Big Digger
Everybody knows that trailer parks cause tornados.

And here I thought tornadoes were cause by young women with annoying yippy dogs that bite old ladies in Kansas.

13 posted on 12/30/2004 10:24:20 AM PST by DrDavid (Tomorrow will be an even better day...)
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To: TexasGreg

Are there any articles from like the 1950's? I'd be interested to see if environmentalists were doing even in that era?


14 posted on 12/30/2004 10:29:15 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: bedolido
Geez, these monumental global climatic changes really swing back and forth don't they? /sarcasm

It's just a big money racket for the environmental wacko's to get government funding and contributions from their mailing list of suckers.

15 posted on 12/30/2004 10:33:13 AM PST by Reagan is King (The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: bedolido

I don't know how or why, but it has to be Bush's fault.


16 posted on 12/30/2004 10:34:05 AM PST by keysguy (Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
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To: bedolido

Oh cool, The Club Of Rome. If we're getting this retro, we'll see people disco dance in public again and that would be hilarious.


17 posted on 12/30/2004 10:53:09 AM PST by .cnI redruM (This country's heart will be giving in any disaster regardless of the recipient's response.)
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To: farmfriend


18 posted on 12/30/2004 11:17:58 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: bedolido
And the NY Times headline:

New Ice Age: Women and minorities hurt most.

19 posted on 12/30/2004 11:20:50 AM PST by NeoCaveman (I care, just not very much.)
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To: keysguy
I don't know how or why, but it has to be Bush's fault.

This is the 70's man. It has to be Nixon's fault.

20 posted on 12/30/2004 11:21:50 AM PST by NeoCaveman (I care, just not very much.)
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