SOUNDING THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALERT...IN 1958

Weather.com ^ | 2/27/08 | Don Willmott

[ZGuy]

Ah, YouTube, how did I ever entertain myself before you came into my life? This week I was browsing around the video site searching on various environment-related terms when I came across what turns out to be a favorite clip of the Al Gore "Inconvenient Truth" crowd. It's a snippet from an educational film from 1958 called "The Unchained Goddess", and you kind of have to see it to believe it.

Produced by Frank Capra for the Bell Telephone Company and featuring the voice talents of none other than Mel "Bugs Bunny" Blanc, this informative yet witty film, clearly aimed at audiences averaging age 14, succinctly explains how global warming could lead to a rise in sea levels that could put Miami under 150 feet of water. Cue the images of the crumbling glaciers!"Man may be unwittingly changing the world's climate through the waste products of his civilization," says the tweed-suited narrator. Indeed! How funny for those of us who never really gave climate change a thought until five years ago to realize that at least one person was panicking about it 50 years ago.

Although less than two minutes of footage of "The Unchained Goddess" is available on YouTube, you can actually buy the complete film here. I bet Al Gore already has a copy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks for find this.

[steelyourfaith]

 

I have the entire Bell Science Series on VHS tape. It's pretty good for youngsters.

 

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[KarlInOhio]

So it was global warming in the 50s, then global cooling in the 70s, and now global warming? When do we have global cooling again? Oh, wait, we've had a 0.5°C drop in the world wide average temperature in the past 12 months.

[tomnbeverly]

It is upon us...

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Hey do I get a Nobel Peace prize now....

[Wagonboy]

Has anyone found any video footage of the glaciers that once covered the Midwest...? And, by the way, who melted them? -Wb

[Vigilanteman]

Did you notice that the term "global warming" has recently become less stylish and the favored term is now "climate change"?

The main thing I noticed, is that the solution is always the same-- put the elitists in charge to solve it.

If it were a real problem, we would see massive civil engineering solutions proposed, like this:

Qattara Depression

If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Medditerranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?

[adorno]

So it was global warming in the 50s, then global cooling in the 70s, and now global warming?

Just like global warming and global cooling, which take turns at changing the climate, the global warming versus global cooling alarmists are also cyclical. Apparently, the cooling versus warming alarmism occurs in 20-30 year cycles.

[KarlInOhio]

Did you notice that the term "global warming" has recently become less stylish and the favored term is now "climate change"?

I think that happened because any time Al Gore went to a global warming conference it snowed. Remember, if you are having a global warming conference in the northern hemisphere do it in July or risk looking silly.

[Names Ash Housewares]

50 years later and how much more C02 has been put out since then?

Yet not even a hint of an “inland sea”.

[Matchett-PI]

Here are my 4 posts so far today at the link you provided:)

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=10866&red=y#259187

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[ADemocratNoMore]

The exact same place where I sit now was at the bottom of a 1 1\2 mile thick ice cube around 15,000 years ago. Yesterday we had 6 inches of global warming. I’d hate to have had to shovel the 95000 inches way back when.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Or if you must hold it in January, do it in Australia.