Way back when – e.g., in the 1970s – climatologists weren’t worrying about “global warming”.\u00a0 At that point, the prospect for general global cooling was the big concern.<\/p>\n
However, today things have changed.\u00a0 Today, the claim is that man is causing runaway warming of the planet.\u00a0 Most current climatologists (or at least the most vocal ones) blame pretty much any bad weather that occurs – even harsh winter weather and extreme snowfall – on said “runaway global warming”.<\/p>\n
Most of today’s\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 global warming “true believers”<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 grant-grubbing tools<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current-day anti-mankind Luddites<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 eco-whackos<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 climate change proponents don’t want to talk about the fact that 40 years ago the consensus was that man was causing a “new ice age”.\u00a0 Hell, concerns along those lines – in particular, the introduction of small particles into the stratosphere leading to high-level cloud formation and resulting runaway global cooling<\/em> – was one of three things (along with sonic boom issues and concerns regarding commercial viability) that combined to kill off the US supersonic transport (SST) program in the late 1960s\/early 1970s.<\/p>\n It’s understandable that they wouldn’t want to talk about that past prediction.\u00a0 The fact that they’ve done a 180-degree “flip-flop” – and still can’t really explain things like the Roman\/Medieval Warm period, the “Little Ice Age” and the much cooler weather of the late 1700s\/early 1800s, and the recent nearly two-decade pause in global warming (which examination of unadjusted raw data shows actually likely extends back to the late 1930s or 1940s) leads to an obvious question they’d like to avoid.<\/p>\n That question is, “If you guys were 100% wrong only 40 years ago and still can’t explain all that other stuff without ‘adjusting the data’, do you really even know your ass from a hole in the ground concerning the subject?”\u00a0 That’s an eminently fair question IMO.<\/p>\n Regardless:\u00a0 though you don’t hear much about it today, back in the early and mid-1970s the media reported on the possibility of a coming ice age. In 1972, even the then “most trusted man in America” joined in beating that drum<\/a>.\u00a0 On September 11, 1972, he reported on that “coming ice age” – based on predictions of one of the day’s preeminent climatologists, Hubert Lamb.<\/p>\n Now, just who was this Hubert Lamb fellow?\u00a0 He was no crackpot – he was the guy who founded<\/span> the Climate Research Unit at the UK’s University of East Anglica, the same guys who today are the leading proponents of the theory that mankind is causing uncontrolled global warming.\u00a0 On his death, he was lauded by the Global Warming Policy Foundation as being “the greatest climatologist of his time”, and for making “climate change a serious research subject”.<\/p>\n Well, of course those guys would pay him homage, even if he was saying exactly the opposite of what they preach today.\u00a0 He’s almost certainly the one who created their meal ticket –\u00a0 by showing them how to get government funding for their activities.<\/p>\n