Global climate circa 1975


A Newsweek article from 1975 discusses the immanence of global cooling
Evan Coyne Maloney at brainterminal.com has a blast from the past, it is how Peter Gwynne at Newsweek reported on global cooling.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.

"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."

Change a few words, and it reads almost exactly like the global warming warnings today, doesn't it?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - September 16, 2005 at 04:57 AM  Tag


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