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I'm open to the science. But I'm also open to the possibility of chronological snobbery that suggests the latest prognostication is definitive, rather than cyclical itself, as well as motivations that may not be completely scientific.
"Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, 'the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.'
Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970
The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.
New York Times, July 18, 1970
In the next 50 years, fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
Washington Post, July 9, 1971
It's already getting colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes...
Los Angles Times, Oct. 24, 1971
An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978
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"I like to come here (Saratoga) every year to visit my money." ---Joe E. Lewis
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