Sentences with phrase «coming ice age»

George Kukla states, that increasing temperature will lead to increased snow precipitation and snow gains will offset the sea level rise — he warns of coming ice age; — RRB -.

Esop (14) claimed that «deniers» would use 2013 as evidence of a recovery plus coming ice age etc (if in fact the ice loss ends up less than 2012).

There were climate scientists who speculated about global cooling in the seventies and there were journalists who wrote articles about the prospect of coming ice ages.

Interestingly, none of them suggested a coming ice age (not for tens of thousands of years anyway).

Climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid, Frequency), one of the main proponents of the coming ice age theory, must try to convince the government that imminent danger is here for all of them, but the warnings fall mostly on deaf ears.

Furry Cat Herder, Might I suggest that the reason people remember the «Coming Ice Age» meme is: 1) It got air play on the cover of Newsweek (or Newsweak as I call it) because spectacular claims sold magazines 2) Anti-science types love to trot it out and say, «See, science was wrong.»

Imbrie & Imbrie «Ice Ages: solving the mystery» (1979) is an interesting general book on the discovery of the ice ages and their mechanisms; chapter 16 deals with «The coming ice age».

This freak event, observed by many, did much to fix the idea of a coming Ice Age in the popular mind in Britain in the late 70s.

As I expect kim will comment about the coming Ice Age, please note that the Arctic sea ice is at just about the same point it was this time last year; however, the area covered by snow in Asia has decreased substantially.

The application of trends to climate data began in the 1970s with the prediction of a coming ice age as temperatures declined from 1940.

(the coming ice age scare was in the mid to late 70s)

If 2013 does not go lower than 2012, they will scream recovery and coming ice age, but when 2014 or 2015 smashes the 2012 record, they will claim that it is all natural and they knew it would happen all along.

Scroll down to the bottom and there are two «Updates» of video clips from Walter Cronkite and Howard K. Smith warning about the coming Ice Age.

The fact of the matter is, while the world is focused on anthropogenic global warming, warming induced by humans, what could potentially be a more serious and real matter is that of the coming ice age as the cycle suggests.

Ironically, NASA data from this same graph sparked the «coming ice age» scare of the 1970s.

I still enjoy watching Leonard Nimoy's «In Search of Episode» on the coming ice age.

In the years that followed, newspapers, magazines and television documentaries spoke of the coming ice age.

perhaps we will need the CO2 one day to ameliorate the coming ice age

By the 1970s, the persistent cooling trend had become a hot topic, so to speak, for magazines and books that fretted about a coming Ice Age, and the federal government supported studies that calculated the economic disasters expected from a colder climate.

By then, fossil fuels may be mostly depleted, the cost of energy may be held in bounds only through massive investments in nuclear power or yet unforeseen technologies, and the chief worry may be that of a coming ice age still looming as our mild interglacial period draws to a close.

The discussions of the coming ice age in the 1970s (see the Time and Newsweek covers of the period) were not at all in the context of «nuclear winter».

That was a totally separate issue which was also discussed publicly at great length — But the 1970s literature on the «coming ice age» had little to do with the «nuclear winter» scenario.

INTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global warming «denial,» editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story about global cooling, and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting.