The big chill

Jeff Jacoby and Extreme Mortman remind us of the past media hype on global cooling and conclude that we therefore shouldn't buy the fabricated lies of the global warming left now. Mortman shows us the 1975 Newsweek article on global cooling:

Scary stuff! Cold blue lines across Europe and the US. A line graph going up and down. And the rhetoric. Dear god, the hyped spin:

Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. [...]

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of cliamtic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

It's rhetoric like this that would stay around for decades. Eventually "meteorologists disagree" would be replaced with "scientists disagree" to make the disagreers sound more agreeable. Shocking, absolutely shocking how they play with our emotions. And what solutions did these leftists extremists propose back then?

Climatologists are pessimistic the political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies.

Adaptation! We all know that adaptation won't work and no one in their right mind would ever suggest that now. Just think if we had increased worldwide food production significantly back then, what a waste of resources, time and effort that would have been!

Nope, folks. I'm still on the side of the deniers! They're winning the war.