For at least 114 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate
was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age,
or global warming.
* 1895 - Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times,
February 1895
* 1902 - “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that
means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles
Times
* 1912 - Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October
1912
* 1923 - “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory
of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress,
– Chicago Tribune
* 1923 - “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance
of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent
of a new ice age” – Washington Post
* 1924 - MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924
* 1929 - “Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will
continue to get warmer” – Los Angeles Times, in Is another ice age coming?
* 1932 - “If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just
teetering on an ice age” – The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World
* 1933 - America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a
25-Year Rise – New York Times, March 27th, 1933
* 1933 – “…wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate
changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau “Monthly Weather Review.”
* 1938 - Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide,
“is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision
of heat and power.”– Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
* 1938 - “Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise…Chicago 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” – Chicago Tribune
* 1939 - “Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are
quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being
is growing warmer” – Washington Post
* 1952 - “…we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last
half century” – New York Times, August 10th, 1962
* 1954 - “…winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding,
deserts growing” – U.S. News and World Report
* 1954 - Climate – the Heat May Be Off – Fortune Magazine
* 1959 - “Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures”
– New York Times
* 1969 - “…the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole
may become an open sea within a decade or two” – New York Times, February 20th, 1969
* 1970 - “…get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst
may be yet to come…there’s no relief in sight” – Washington Post
* 1974 - Global cooling for the past forty years – Time Magazine
* 1974 - “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for
the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age”
– Washington Post
* 1974 - “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists
have concluded that it is very bad news indeed” – Fortune magazine, who won a Science
Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger
* 1974 - “…the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic
experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure…mass deaths by starvation,
and probably anarchy and violence” – New York Times
* 1975 - Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling
Widely Considered to Be Inevitable – New York Times, May 21st, 1975
* 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” Nigel Calder, editor,
New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
* 1976 - “Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend” – U.S. News and World
Report
* 1981 - Global Warming – “of an almost unprecedented magnitude” – New York Times
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Updated at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/29/a-brief-history-of-climate-panic-and-crisis-both-warming-and-cooling/