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United States News Title: There is most certainly a pattern to climate change… …but it’s not what you may think: For at least 114 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. * 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 suns 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 * 1929 - Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer Los Angeles Times, in Is another ice age coming? * 1932 - If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World * 1933 - America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise New York Times, March 27th, 1933 * 1933
wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather
Is our climate changing? Federal Weather Bureau Monthly Weather Review. * 1938 - Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society * 1938 - Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise
Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades Chicago Tribune * 1939 - Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right
weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer Washington Post * 1952 -
we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century New York Times, August 10th, 1962 * 1954 -
winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing U.S. News and World Report * 1954 - Climate the Heat May Be Off Fortune Magazine * 1959 - Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures New York Times * 1969 -
the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two New York Times, February 20th, 1969 * 1969 If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 200083; Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation) * 1970 -
get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters the worst may be yet to come
theres no relief in sight Washington Post * 1974 - Global cooling for the past forty years Time Magazine * 1974 - Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age Washington Post * 1974 - As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger * 1974 -
the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure
mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence New York Times * 1975 - Scientists Ponder Why Worlds Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable New York Times, May 21st, 1975 * 1975 - The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine * 1976 - Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend U.S. News and World Report * 1981 - Global Warming of an almost unprecedented magnitude New York Times * 1988 - I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that thegreenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves. Jim Hansen, June 1988 testimony before Congress, see His later quote and His superiors objection for context * 1989 -On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people wed like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the publics imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This double ethical bind we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both. Stephen Schneider, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Discover magazine, October 1989 * 1990 - Weve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy Senator Timothy Wirth * 1993 - Global climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture. U.S. News and World Report * 1998 - No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony . . . climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world. Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998 * 2001 - Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible. Time Magazine, Monday, Apr. 09, 2001 * 2003 - Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as synfuels, shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration Jim Hansen, NASA Global Warming activist, Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?, 2003 * 2006 - I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis. Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 2006 * Now: The global mean temperature has fallen for four years in a row, which is why you stopped hearing details about the actual global temperature, even while they carry on about taxing you to deal with it
how long before they start predicting an ice age? The actual Global Warming Advocates' chart, overlayed on the "climate change" hysterics of the past 120 years. Not only is it clear that they take any change and claim it's going to go on forever and kill everyone, but notice that they even sometimes get the short-term trend wrong... Worse still, notice that in 1933 they claim global warming has been going on for 25 years
the entire 25 years they were saying we were entering an ice age. And in 1974, they say there has been global cooling for 40 years
the entire time of which theyd been claiming the earth was getting hotter! Of course NOW they are talking about the earth warming for the past century, again ignoring that they spent much of that century claiming we were entering an ice age. The fact is that the mean temperature of the planet is, and should be, always wavering up or down, a bit, because this is a natural world, not a climate-controlled office. So there will always be some silly bureaucrat, in his air-conditioned ivory tower, who looks at which way its going right now, draws up a chart as if this is permanant, realizes how much fear can increase his funding, and proclaims doom for all of humanity. * 2006 It is not a debate over whether the earth has been warming over the past century. The earth is always warming or cooling, at least a few tenths of a degree
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT * 2006 What we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always
warming or cooling, its never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years. Philip Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London * 2006 - Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 193082;s the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 192082;s until the 196082;s they warned of global warming. From the 195082;s until the 197082;s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estates fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years. Senator James Inhofe, Monday, September 25, 2006 * 2007- I gave a talk recently (on fallacies of global warming) and three members of the Canadian government, the environmental cabinet, came up afterwards and said, We agree with you, but its not worth our jobs to say anything. So whats being created is a huge industry with billions of dollars of government money and peoples jobs dependent on it. Dr. Tim Ball, Coast-to-Coast, Feb 6, 2007 * 2008 Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASAs official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankinds effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA, see above for Hansen quotes
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Has anyone always talkt like this?
Must-read Hansen and Sato paper: We are at a climate tipping point that, once crossed, enables multi-meter sea level rise this century January 20, 2011 as NASAs James Hansen and Makiko Sato explain in a new draft paper, Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change. The question is how much warmer was it in the Eemian and early Pliocene than today and how fast can the great ice sheets disintegrate?
Hansen in 1981 wrote: He was spot-on. Here's the link to the paper you reference: http://www.c olumbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
And thank you. I have problems getting pdf links for some reason. ;}
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