{"id":833,"date":"2019-11-27T05:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=833"},"modified":"2019-11-27T05:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:42:51","slug":"for-at-least-114-years-climate-scientists-have-been-claiming-that-the-climate-was-going-to-kill-usbut-they-have-kept-switching-whether-it-was-a-coming-ice-age-or-global-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"For at least 114 years, climate \u201cscientists\u201d have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us\u2026but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/\">https:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1895 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Geologists Think the <\/em><em>World May Be Frozen Up Again<\/em> \u2013 <a title=\"PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER GLACIAL PERIOD; Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.\" href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9F02E1D8163CE433A25757C2A9649C94649ED7CF\"> New York Times, February 1895<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1902 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cDisappearing Glaciers\u2026deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation\u2026scientific fact\u2026surely disappearing.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1912 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age<\/em> \u2013 <a title=\"SEES GLACIAL ERA COMING.; Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age. \" href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9A04EED7113AE633A25754C0A9669D946396D6CF\">New York Times, October 1912<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1923 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cScientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada\u201d \u2013 Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, \u2013 <strong>Chicago Tribune<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1923 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cThe discoveries of changes in the sun\u2019s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age\u201d \u2013 <strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1924 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age<\/em> \u2013 <a title=\"MACMILLAN REPORTS SIGNS OF NEW ICE AGE; Explorer Brings Word of Unusual Movements of Greenland Glaciers -- Coal Deposits Show Polar Climate Was Once Tropical \" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=FA0C14FB3C5B12738DDDA10A94D1405B848EF1D3&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%93MacMillan+Reports+Signs%22&amp;st=p\"> New York Times, Sept 18, 1924<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1929 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cMost geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer\u201d \u2013 <strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong>, in <em>Is another ice age coming?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>1932 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cIf these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age\u201d \u2013 <strong>The Atlantic <\/strong>magazine, <em>This Cold, Cold World<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>1933 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise<\/em> \u2013 <a title=\"America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise \" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F00617FF3D5E1A7A93C5AB1788D85F478385F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=&quot;America+in+Longest+Warm+Spell+Since+1776&quot;&amp;st=p\"> New York Times, March 27th, 1933<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1933 <\/strong> \u2013 \u201c\u2026wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather\u2026Is our climate changing?\u201d \u2013 <strong>Federal Weather Bureau<\/strong> \u201cMonthly Weather Review.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>1938 <\/strong>\u2013 Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, \u201cis likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.\u201d\u2013\u00a0Quarterly Journal of the <strong>Royal Meteorological Society<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1938 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cExperts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise\u2026Chicago 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\u201d \u2013 <strong>Chicago Tribune<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1939 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cGaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right\u2026 weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer\u201d \u2013 <strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1952 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201c\u2026we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century\u201d \u2013 <a title=\"OUR CHANGING CLIMATE \" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F20E1EF6345A107B93C2A81783D85F468585F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=&quot;has+been+getting+warmer+in+the+last+half+century&quot;&amp;st=p\">New York Times, August 10th, 1962<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1954 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201c\u2026winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing\u201d \u2013 <strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1954 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Climate \u2013 the Heat May Be Off<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Fortune Magazine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1959 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cArctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures\u201d \u2013 <strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1969 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201c\u2026the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two\u201d \u2013 <a title=\"Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea; Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap \" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F40A11FC3959147493C2AB1789D85F4D8685F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=&quot;Arctic+pack+ice+is+thinning+and+that+the+ocean+at+the&quot;&amp;st=p\">New York Times, February 20th, 1969<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1969<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cIf I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000\u201d \u2014 <strong>Paul Ehrlich<\/strong> (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1970 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201c\u2026get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters \u2013 the worst may be yet to come\u2026there\u2019s no relief in sight\u201d \u2013 <strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1974 <\/strong>\u2013 Global cooling for the past forty years \u2013 <strong>Time Magazine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1974 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cClimatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age\u201d \u2013 <strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1974 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cAs for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed\u201d \u2013 <strong>Fortune<\/strong> magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201c\u2026the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure\u2026mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence\u201d \u2013 <strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Cassandras are becoming<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">increasingly apprehensive,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">for the weather<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">aberrations they are<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">studying may be the<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">harbinger of another<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">ice age<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1975 <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Scientists Ponder Why World\u2019s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable<\/em> \u2013 <a title=\"Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead; Scientists Ponder Why World's Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable \" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F50B1FFD395D137B93C3AB178ED85F418785F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22Scientists+Ponder+Why+World%92s+Climate+is+Changing%22&amp;st=p\">New York Times, May 21st, 1975<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>1975 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cThe threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind\u201d Nigel Calder, editor, <strong>New Scientist<\/strong> magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cEven U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend\u201d \u2013 <strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1981 <\/strong>\u2013 Global Warming \u2013 \u201cof an almost unprecedented magnitude\u201d \u2013 New York Times<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988 <\/strong>\u2013 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. \u2013 <strong>Jim Hansen<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-files\/Environment\/documents\/2008\/06\/23\/ClimateChangeHearing1988.pdf\">June 1988 testimony<\/a> before Congress, see <a title=\"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.  \u2013 Jim Hansen, NASA Global Warming activist, Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?, 2003\" href=\"https:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/#hype\">His later quote<\/a> and <a title=\"2008 \u2013 Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA\u2019s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind\u2019s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress \u2013 Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA, see above for Hansen quotes\" href=\"https:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/#horror\">His superior\u2019s objection<\/a> for context<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989 <\/strong> -\u201cOn 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 \u2013 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 we\u2019d 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 public\u2019s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. <strong>So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.<\/strong> This \u201cdouble ethical bind\u201d 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.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Stephen Schneider<\/strong>, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, <strong>Discover<\/strong> magazine, October 1989<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing \u2013 in terms of economic policy and environmental policy\u201d \u2013 <strong>Senator Timothy Wirth<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1993 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cGlobal climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture.\u201d \u2013 <strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1998 <\/strong>\u2013 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.\u201d \u2014Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, <strong>Calgary Herald<\/strong>, 1998<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cScientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible.\u201d \u2013 <a title=\"Life In The Greenhouse \" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,999630,00.html\">Time Magazine, Monday, Apr. 09, 2001<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"hype\"><\/a><strong>2003 <\/strong>\u2013 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 \u201csynfuels,\u201d shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration\u201d \u2013 <strong>Jim Hansen<\/strong>, NASA Global Warming activist, <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalscience.com\/ns\/articles\/01-16\/ns_jeh6.html\">Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?<\/a>, 2003<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006 <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cI 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.\u201d \u2014 Al Gore, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/news\/maindish\/2006\/05\/09\/roberts\/index.html\">Grist magazine, May 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now: The global mean temperature has <a title=\"NASA's own chart, including the last two years of global cooling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ossfoundation.us\/projects\/environment\/global-warming\/myths\/images\/temperature-records\/2008_global_land_ocean_temperature_index.gif\/image_preview\">fallen for four years in a row<\/a>, which is why you stopped hearing details about the actual global temperature, even while they carry on about taxing you to deal with it\u2026how long before they start predicting an ice age?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/ 1895 \u2013 Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again \u2013 New York Times, February 1895 1902 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[827,27,54,403,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}