well in 1974 these acclaimed scientists also advocated melting the ice caps because they believed another Ice Age was underway. They're clearly terrific predictors of what the planet is doing next....
as they say...those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it...just this time it has the right political and financial backing
and, yes, they used all the same rhetoric of doom and impending disaster:
“ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically"
"upcoming drastic decline in food production”
"when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing"
"the weather climatologists are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age"
"Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic"
"The most drastic potential change considered in the new report is an abrupt end to the present interglacial period of relative warmth that has governed the planet’s climate for the past 10,000 years"
and it even included a letter to the president, just like the "global warming" purveyors
Dear Mr. President:
Aware of your deep concern with the future of the world, we feel obliged to inform you on the results of the scientific conference held here recently. The conference dealt with the past and future changes of climate and was attended by 42 top American and European investigators. We enclose the summary report published in Science and further publications are forthcoming in Quaternary Research.
The main conclusion of the meeting was that a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experience by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.
The cooling has natural cause and falls within the rank of processes which produced the last ice age. This is a surprising result based largely on recent studies of deep sea sediments.
Existing data still do not allow forecast of the precise timing of the predicted development, nor the assessment of the man’s interference with the natural trends. It could not be excluded however that the cooling now under way in the Northern Hemisphere is the start of the expected shift. The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.
The practical consequences which might be brought by such developments to existing social institution are among others:
(1) Substantially lowered food production due to the shorter growing seasons and changed rain distribution in the main grain producing belts of the world, with Eastern Europe and Central Asia to be first affected.
(2) Increased frequency and amplitude of extreme weather anomalies such as those bringing floods, snowstorms, killing frosts, etc.
With the efficient help of the world leaders, the research …
With best regards,
George J. Kukla (Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory)
R. K. Matthews (Chairman, Dept of Geological Sciences, Brown U)
