They are also the same «kinds» of people who predicted the next
impending ice age in the late sixties - early seventies.
The WSJ published an editorial on the movie, which trots out the usual claptrap (CO2 saves us
from impending ice age) as well as a new 4th level of skepticism: «we're all dead in the long run»:
The problem being that most government nutritional recommendations are based the scientific wisdom of a time when climatologists were warning of
an impending ice age.
To President Donald Trump the cold snap was a chance to mock climate change, and some sceptics suddenly talked about
an impending ice age.
As preparation for
an impending Ice Age, a new project, half science experiment half live - entertainment, is launched.
The Darwin Project is both a scientific endeavour in the face of a new,
impending Ice Age and also a spectacle of entertainment for the citizens living in the aforementioned dystopia.
I half expect someone in the Australian media to declare that we should burn more coal to ward off
an impending Ice Age.
When the scientists found that an article in The Telegraph misrepresented recent research by claiming that the world faced
an impending ice age, the newspaper issued a public correction and substantially modified the online text.
The hockey stick tails on the current models need to be revised as we're facing
an impending ice age:
And remember, the starting point was in a decade when ground stations were showing unusually low temperatures and the alarmists were talking about
an impending ice age.
Erratic weather may be one sigh of
an impending Ice Age.»
Not that I'm a scientist, but I'm old enough to remember very well the scares of the 70's of global cooling and
an impending ice age.
The planet also cooled from 1945 - 75, to the point where some climatologists (notably Stephen Schneider) warned of
an impending ice age.
The data was crude at first, and opinions vacillated (skeptics like to recall a 1974 Time cover story that predicted
an impending ice age).
As Prof. James (Gaia Theory) Lovelock said 3 years ago: we're going to need all the C02 we can get to stave off
the impending Ice Age.
This means
the impending ice age is still postponed indefinitely.
«Preparing for the possibility of
an impending ice age along with the possible consequences of a reduction in Earth's magnetic field are real concerns.
I think the current emphasis on man - made warming may be akin to the worry over
an impending ice age that was propounded during the period of the Time magazine article I quoted.
One major difference which should have been apparent even to a lay person was that fears of
an impending ice age ran their course and we heard little about it after a while, but concerns about warming didn't go away as evidence mounted.