The YMCA is back and worse than ever. President-elect Donald Trump helped revive the 1978 disco icon. However, some members of the media are not taking to the dance floor, and the field of “fixed science” is trying to overshadow the cultural climate of the 1970s. [emphasis, links added]
Today's popular narrative about climate change, which suggests that the public and scientists in the 1970s were not that concerned about the global cooling of that decade, can be classified as disinformation, or at least misinformation.
In the mid-1970s, I was an undergraduate meteorology major at Penn State University, and even though I published papers to the contrary, There is real concern about the emergence of a new ice age. (Outside of Penn State, some non-science majors are being warned that soon Polar bears may be roaming New York City. It turns out this is true, but luckily the bears are confined to the Central Park Zoo.
Perhaps most scientists are not overly concerned that the trend of declining global temperatures since the 1940s will continue; however, I also do not recall much anxiety about looming global warming.
In addition, in the story time, newsweekand other popular magazines sensitize people to global cooling trends.
“The public is braced for a catastrophic chill,” the book confidently declared.A handful of scientists deny evidence that Earth's climate was cooling before the 1970swhen weird weather around the world forces them to reconsider their views” (Excerpt from cool down Author: Lowell Ponte, 1976).
Thoughts on the book cover: “Has the next ice age already begun? Will we survive it?
Or, from Our Changing Weather: Disaster Forecast? Author: Claude Ross, 1977:
“Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have been falling steadily since the 1940s. Glaciers are advancing again. Scientists no longer debate the arrival of a new ice age: now the question is when?
The cover of the book teases: “Will we run out of fuel? Will our food be destroyed? Will we be frozen?
After notifying the editor of the prestigious journal, John Maddox nature 1989, content our changing weather In the book, he replied:
“Thank you very much for your letter, but I'm afraid we won't be able to publish it. The difficulty is that it is well known in the scientific community that just 15 years ago climatologists were more worried about the prospect of a return to the ice age than they were about the greenhouse effect [aka global warming]…”
Moreover, young people are already prepared for the coming icy disaster. Dust jackets for primary school textbooks, new ice age by Henry Gilfond (1978), on display [three] Large thermometers line up in rows, signaling an ominous drop in temperature.
A Christian pamphlet alerts society to the dangers of cooling by asking “Do we need to worry about another ice age?” Authors: Walter Long and Vic Rockman.
And Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original work StarCraft television series and even produced a radio segment called “The Search for the Coming Ice Age.”
Overall, widespread and costly panic about cold-weather catastrophe was mitigated without the help of the 1970s Internet.
final, In the 1980s, what began as a panic about the “greenhouse effect” morphed into overheated “global warming,” then catastrophic “climate change,” and now into a variety of scary memes and nicknames.
Given the history of confident climate claims, ordinary people have a right to be skeptical of the “established science” about climate change.
Regardless, whatever warming or cooling is coming, as a disco diva sang in 1978: “I will survive.” My guess is that the Earth will too.
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