A TIMELINE OF CLIMATE PANIC AND CRISIS: 120 YEARS OF CLIMATE HORRORS!
This is quite wonderful: Watts Up With That has a brief history of climate panic and crisis… both warming and cooling.
For at least 114 120 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.
(A timeline of claims follows, updated to 2014)
- 1895 – Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times, February 1895
- 1902 – “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles Times
- 1912 – Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October 1912
- 1923 – “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, – Chicago Tribune
- 1923 – “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” – Washington Post
- 1924 – MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924
I can see how people who were born after the seventies and have heard nothing but ‘global warming’ all of their lives have nothing else to refer to in their life experience. Those who have gone through the global ice-age and then the global warming epochs might have a tendency to call BS on the whole thing, especially if you have lived through both and many cycles of wet/dry years and noticed that not much has really changed since you were a kid. Might not be so inclined to hop on the latest cultural craze.
John Stossel talks about this all the time; how we love to scare ourselves into believing there will be doom in our future. It’s as if some 1950s SciFi movie was happening in real life.
Years before TV and even radio it was the guy on the street corner with the billboard draped over his shoulders that said, “God is ANGRY! The end of the world is NIGH!” He was shrugged off as a kook — because he WAS! Now it’s the Klimate Kooks (insert Goofy laugh here) that tell us the end is near but now somehow it’s OUR fault.
Just wait. Some LoFo retard will look at all of this past bullshit and claim it proves climate change so we had all better reduce our carbon footprint or the climate gods will be angry.
I have a question for the ‘tards. How you can tell the difference between an atom of carbon produced by humans and an atom of carbon produced by either plants or animals and an atom of carbon produced by the planet? Show your work.
120 years ago? Isn’t that about the same time socialism began churning out the first generation of mind numb robots?
The Dems use climate hysteria to whip up programs that increase government control. They know it’s not real but an effective tool to garner support from the ignorant masses and get them to vote for Dems.
@Opian – the problem is with the 1960’s LSD smoking crowd now making policy.
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the Mastodons??!
These gasbags could always go back to preaching Phrenology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH48t8tw4Ec
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Never forget Otzi. He laid down on an Alpine meadow 5000 years ago and died. Only to have his preserved body fetched up as a glacier melted between Austria and Italy in 1991. 5000 years ago, the Alps were meadows. Think about that. We have had global cooling for 5000 years, and until the Alpine glaciers have melted and reveal a temperate zone, we will still be suffering from Global Cooling.
Government is always the solution looking for a problem to solve