Global warming and echoes from the past

In the opening minutes of “Rodan”, the manager of a coal mine walks into his office and states, “It’s going to be a scorcher today.” A young engineer says ,“They say the Earth is getting hotter.” The manager laughs in a scoffing manner and says “You mean global warming?”

As seen, the weather and climate have been misunderstood repeatedly, which underscores that there truly is “nothing new under the sun.” To reinforce that idea, look up “120 Years of Climate Scares” in the Aug. 4, 2019, edition of “The American Thinker”. There are more than three dozen articles highlighted. Here is a sampling.

1. The New York Times, February, 1895: “Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.”

2. The L A Times, 1902: Disappearing Glaciers… with a persistency that means their final annihilation.”

3. Royal Meteorological Society, 1938: “Global warming… is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.”

4. The New York Times, February 20. 1969: “… the arctic ice pack is thinning and that the ocean may become ann open sea within a decade or two”.

5. The Washington Post, 1974: “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.”

6. Nigel Calder, the “New Scientist” magazine 1975: “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

JEREMY CONLIN

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