I still remember having to write papers in junior high and high school about how global cooling was going to end humanity and the next ice age was coming. Our teachers required us to write papers on how New York City was going to be covered with 400 feet of ice by year 2000.
Where was this nonsense coming from you ask. During the 1970s, the media and university professors were all over the theory that the earth was rapidly cooling and only large sums of government money could cure the problem. The newspapers, magazines, and TV news regularly had reports about the threat of global cooling.
Time Cover in 1977
Of course there is the June, 1974 Time article about "Another Ice Age".
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
So how is all of this any different than the Global Warming nonsense put forward today?
I see lots of similarities with made-up statistics and self-serving advocates making lots of money off their "science".
Where was this nonsense coming from you ask. During the 1970s, the media and university professors were all over the theory that the earth was rapidly cooling and only large sums of government money could cure the problem. The newspapers, magazines, and TV news regularly had reports about the threat of global cooling.
Time Cover in 1977
Of course there is the June, 1974 Time article about "Another Ice Age".
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
So how is all of this any different than the Global Warming nonsense put forward today?
I see lots of similarities with made-up statistics and self-serving advocates making lots of money off their "science".