That is because there is no way to control people's behavior and obtain power by sounding the alarm about an advancing ice age. We can't force the sun to produce more heat, but we sure as hell can force people not to drive their cars or turn on their air conditioners.
P-Marlowe wrote: “That is because there is no way to control people’s behavior and obtain power by sounding the alarm about an advancing ice age.”
Sure there is, if you look at the “climate change” advocacy of the 1970’s, the solutions were, higher fuel taxes, discouraging private automobile ownership, windfall profits taxes on oil companies and utilities, heavy regulation of new automobile design and building construction etc. etc
Amazing how the “climate change” true believers made a sign error on the direction of temperature, but the solutions are still the same...
“sounding the alarm about an advancing ice age.”
Even if we only have a minor ice age like the Maunder Minimum, we will need a lot more fuel to keep our homes warm. Regardless of warming or cooling, we still need to get our energy consumption under better control. If we all make the effort, the government won’t need to do it for us.
Incidentally, what the heck is an opihi?