I can't resist. Back in the chilly 1970's, there was a scientific consensus regarding imminent climate change. And it was happening while we were living it.
I borrow quotes from another blog. Watch out, the glaciers are coming. No deniers will be tolerated. We must act now or we are doomed. If the honorable president was around then, would he have advocated persistent burning of coal to heat up the atmosphere? What business would climate clown Al Gore have started instead of trying to make billions trading carbon credits?
Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."
Just like political history, we need to be aware of science history. The next time you grouse about the weather forecast for tomorrow being wrong, rest assured that climate forecasts 100 years out are correct. Trust them ... come on, they know.
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