Posted on 02/03/2007 1:25:07 PM PST by nwrep
From a bygone era when reasoned scientific analysis held sway:
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NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE
WE still speak of "the Ice Age" as if it belonged to the remote geological past. Geologists have reached the conclusion that there were several ice ages. What is more, the last Ice Age, known as the Quaternary, is only about half over, despite our blistering Summers.
Very slowly, the great ice sheets in the Arctic and the Antarctic regions are melting and pouring their torrents into the ocean.
The earth must inevitably change its aspect and its climate.
How the change is slowly taking place and what the result will be has been considered by geologists, physicists, and meteorologists.
In the course of about 700,000 years, the glacial sheets that now cover the North and South poles have melted down to their present area of 6,000,000 square miles from 12,000,000 square miles in extent.
The earth is steadily getting warmer. As all the ice at the two poles melts, a stupendous volume of water will be released. Professor Edgeworth David of the University of Sydney conservatively estimates that the sea level will rise fifty feet.
Such floods are nothing new, as we see from the marine fossils found on the tops of the Rockies, Andes and other mountain ranges.
So within 30,000 to 40,000 years, there will be another deluge. Salt water will sweep over the continents, leaving only the higher lands dry. Holland will be inundated. Fish will swim in the Buckingham Palace. The desert of Sahara will be a great inland sea. Palms and alligators will flourish at the poles, as they did millions of years ago.
No one can tell what would happen if a new carboniferous era should follow the warming of the earth. Man is about as old as the present Ice Age. It is a question if he will survive it.
Then I read the article date.
< sigh >
The ICE AGE and its END through 100% natural activity with zero relation to man activities is the silver bullet that kills any of this Human-related Global Warming BS and lies.
Great find!
The New York Times was instrumental in exposing the Boss Tweed democratic political corruption machine operating within Tammany Hall... but that was quite some time ago.
The earth must inevitably change its aspect and its climate.
from 1932!
As I recall, there was a prediction of an Ice age somewhere in the late '60's thru mid-70's as well. So we've had a Warming (30's-40's), Ice Age(60's - 70's), Warming (90's-00's).
At least we'll have the Carbon Tax in place to pay for our increased heating bills when the prediction swings back to Ice Age in about 15 - 20 years.
Am I the only one getting weary of dealing with these people?
But that's not the entire story. The NYT article from 1932 speaks of 30,000-40,000 years for the temperature to get back up to where it was long ago. The problem seen by the "global warming" alarmists is that the rate of change in the past 100 years indicates a far faster rise in temperature than was foreseen 75 years ago. The problems foreseen 75 years ago might happen far sooner than 30,000 years at present rates of change. But who knows????
Look, the Earth does what it wants to do, regardless of mankind's activities. We can, and perhaps are, making it happen somewhat sooner than it otherwise would. So maybe we get uncomfortable and wet sooner than otherwise. Thing is, we don't know and can't really tell. There's no "control" alongside this experiment.
Mankind survives by being adaptive. We'll adapt, and the ones that don't, won't make it. That's life.
I believe that man does indeed have some impact on the planet. The extent of that impact, however, is probably overblown. It is a good thing to try to lessen emissions and increase gas mileage. Lessening our dependence on foreign oil is in our national interest.
Tremendous - now someone needs to find the physical paper and re-publish it.
I knew it was too good to be true ... (NYT in 2007, that is)
one really has nothing to do with the other.
Cool movie
They were for global cooling before they were against it.
It certainly didn't put a bad spin on the glaciers melting.
I wonde how much it's rose ( risen ?) since 1932
There.
I fixed it.
Agree and thanks :)
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