Thursday, March 5, 2015
“Climate fear promoters switched effortlessly from global cooling fears in the 1970s to global warming fears in the 1980s. In the present day, the phrase 'global warming' has lost favor in favor of 'climate change' or 'global climate disruption' or even 'global weirding."
By Julia A. Seymour | March 5, 2015
The
“brutal” winter is on the attack again, bringing sleet and heavy snow
to the mid-Atlantic region. Previous storms targeted the deep south
including Dallas, Texas, and several hammered New England. By March 4,
Boston was just 2 inches away from hitting an all-time record for snow, Boston.com reported.
It’s a reality more in keeping with media warnings from the 1970s than today’s arguments about global warming.
NBC Nightly News reported Feb. 23, that Dallas was
paralyzed “after an entire season’s worth of sleet and freezing rain,
up to two inches, fell in a single day” causing massive traffic
problems. Similar scenes happened in other southern states as the cold
swept across the U.S. Single digit temperatures hit New York City and
Newark N.J. saw temperatures as low as 8 degrees on Feb. 23, NOAA said.
Massive pileups mangled cars, Louisianans built snowmen and
thousands flocked to Letchworth State Park, near Rochester, N.Y. to see
a 53-foot tall ice fountain that keeps growing as record lows abound in
the Northeast, CBS reported on Feb. 25. CBS also noted Rochester
experienced its coldest month since 1871.
Some winters are “bone-chilling,” like this one has been, others are mild, and some like the 1972-1973 winter started early and harsh, but grew surprising mild. That was the same year Walter Cronkite was “the most trusted man in America” in 1972, according to polls.
A 2009 CBS obituary for the journalist said, “Cronkite was the biggest
name in television news, the king of the anchormen; in fact, he was the
reporter for whom the term ‘anchorman’ was coined.
On Sept. 11, 1972, Cronkite cited scientists’ predictions
that there was a “new ice age” coming. He called that prediction from
British scientist Hubert Lamb “a bit of bad news.”
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