"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval.
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Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the ... trend.
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Whatever the cause of the ... trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic."
Scary stuff, I am deeply concerned... Well I would be were it not of the fact that those are extracts from a TIME Magazine article from 1974. The article concludes:
"The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."
Why is the 2000's obsession with Global Warming/Man Made Climate Change any more credible than the mid 1970's obsession with Global Cooling?
Thanks to No Parasan for the spot.
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