Monday, June 05, 2006

Blowing Hot and Cold

It certainly seems from reading any news accounts that Global Warming is an accepted fact. But is it actually fact, or politically correct reporting? I was amazed recently to read that the Ozone Hole over Antarctica will actually close in the next few years!

"The New York Times in 1895 predicted widespread global cooling. In 1924, the paper reported 'Signs of New Ice Age.' But in 1933, 1952, 1959, and 1969, the Times declared global warming. Then in 1974 and 1975, the Times decided that the new ice age was coming, with catastrophic consequences: 'the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade' leading to 'mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence.'

The Washington Post announced a 'New Ice Age' in 1970, and, in 1974, Fortune agreed, touting a scientist who predicted that a billion people would die from starvation caused by global cooling. Time magazine declared global warming in 1939, global cooling in 1974, and currently believes in global warming."

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