The application of trends to climate data began in the 1970s with the prediction
of a coming ice age as temperatures declined from 1940.
«But now — unearthed from bowels of media archives — comes none other than Walter Cronkite reporting on fears
of a coming ice age in 1972.
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.
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.
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.
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.
-- Retired high school science teacher, SURVIVOR of the Coming Ice Age
Or by time it's sunk in that it's cooling and everyone's talking the
doom of coming Ice age, it will turn around and start warming again.
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 -.
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.
Today's UK Daily Mail gives more evidence that would have made my mother, of blessed memory issue a major Jewish Mother Sweater Alert because the Arctic Ice cap grew by 60 % this past year and more scientists are warning
of the coming ice age.