Webloggin » Thirty Years Of Climate Change BS

Not much has changed in the last 30 years. In 1975 Peter Gwynne wrote an article that appeared in the August edition of Newsweek with the ominous title “The Cooling World“. It was your typical climate change propaganda; only back then it wasn’t definitively attributed to mankind. Nonetheless the message was dire and there was a bit of hand wringing going on concerning the fear that politicians wouldn’t “take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects.”

What follows are a couple selective excerpts from the 1975 warning.

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.

The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

This is all I heard about when I was a kid. We were all going to be underneath a 6 foot sheet of ice by the time I reached my adult years. It was all our fault and we had better fix it and fast. Scary thought for someone in 2nd grade. Thankfully my mother explained to me that it was a bunch of crap in her typically level headed pragmatic manner.

Fast forward some 30 years later and I find myself in the same shoes as my mother. Global Warming is here with a vengeance; the disastrous repercussions are imminent. But the spin machine is bigger. An ex-President whose administration selectively steered research funding toward the creation of global warming politics stands to gain financially even though his family is in the business of oil; one of the greatest contributing factors to carbon emissions. Movies are made, Oscars are given out and mockumentaries that have been subsequently discredited are still shown in schools by teacher activists who are no more of an authority of global warming than the french fry guy at McDonalds (now without trans fats).

So as a mother I have to undo the damage done by activists who mix the message of environmental responsibility with the financially motivated politics of global warming. Children have to be educated to smell the bull when they see it coming.

It is politics as usual. The date has changed, the earth has changed, but liberal activists stay the same - completely unfazed by facts and the lessons of history. All I can say is that the more things change, the more they stay the same and Americans really should start learning from mistakes of the past.

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