This has been making its way around the "sphere" (as we cyberheads like to call it) but if you haven't seen it, then it is worth a look. For a laugh and to remind, again, that the best response to any apocalyptic headline is skepticism.
DANGER: The Globe Is Cooling
New York Times, February 24, 1895: "Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again."
New York Times, October 7, 1912: "Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age."
Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1912: "Fifth ice age is on the way. Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold."
Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1923: "Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada."
Washington Post, August 10, 1923: "Ice Age Coming Here."
Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1924: "If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age."
DANGER: The Globe Is Warming
Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1929:
"Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will
continue to get warmer."
Chicago Daily Tribune, November 6, 1939:
"Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities [throughout] the
world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer
climate in the last two decades."
New York Times, August 10, 1952: "[W]e have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century."
New York Times, 1953: "[N]early all the great ice sheets are in retreat."
U.S.
News & World Report, January 8, 1954: "[W]inters are getting
milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing."
New York Times, February 15, 1959: "Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures."
New
York Times, February 20, 1969: "[T]he Arctic pack ice is thinning and
[. . .] the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a
decade or two."
DANGER: The Globe Is Cooling
Science News, November 15, 1969:
"How long the current cooling trend continues is one of the most
important problems of our civilization."
Washington Post, January
11, 1970: "[G]et a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters --
the worst may be yet to come." The article was titled, "Colder Winters
Herald Dawn of New Ice Age."
New York Times, December 29, 1974:
"[P]resent climate change [will result in] mass deaths by starvation
and probably in anarchy and violence."
Christian Science Monitor, 1974: "[T]he North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool."
Newsweek,
April 28, 1975: "The drop in food output [as a result of climate
change] could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now. [. .
.] [The] central fact [is] the earth's climate seems to be cooling
down."
New York Times, 1975: "A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable."
Science News, 1975: "[T]he cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
New
Scientist editor Nigel Calder, 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."
The Cooling, by Lowell Ponte, 1976: "The cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations."
DANGER: The Globe Is Warming
New York Times, August 22, 1981: "[Global warming of an] almost unprecedented magnitude [is predicted]."
Washington Post, January 18, 2006: "[Rising temperatures] could literally, alter the fundamentals of life on the planet."
Time,
March 26, 2006: "Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever . . . More
and More; Land is Being Devastated by Drought . . . Rising Waters Are
Drowning Low-Lying Communities . . . By Any Measure, Earth Is at the
Tipping Point; The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame."
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