{"id":58824,"date":"2015-03-20T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58824"},"modified":"2015-03-20T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:46:33","slug":"a-cooling-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58824","title":{"rendered":"A Cooling “Blast from the Past”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In keeping with the spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 thaw<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 snowstorm hitting the NE USA, I thought I’d provide this link.\u00a0 It’s to an article from Harper’s Magazine<\/span> – in September, 1958.<\/p>\n

The Coming Ice Age<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The thesis then was that continued global warming would melt the Arctic ice cap.\u00a0 That would cause a rise in global sea levels – and more precipitation, including more snow.<\/p>\n

However, unlike modern-day\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cassandras<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chicken Littles<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 prophets of doom<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 climate warming “true believers”, the theory then was that this ongoing global warming would trigger another ice age<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n

You see, some of that increasing amount of the snow would never melt during the summer.\u00a0 That non-melting snow would start to form permanent snow cover, then glaciers.\u00a0 Those glaciers would grow, then merge.\u00a0 Winds from the north would begin to cool the weather farther and farther south.\u00a0 Ice sheets would form, and begin to creep south.\u00a0 In fact, ice sheets up to two miles thick would cover the US and Europe in “several thousand years!”<\/p>\n

Of course, they were also predicting in 1958 that the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by 1978, too.\u00a0 They seem to have been a bit off about that, too.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n

Today, the Arctic is still supposedly melting.\u00a0 But now that’s allegedly evidence of runaway man-made global warming<\/em> and a sign that the planet is about to overheat.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n

Or at least, maybe today’s climatologists need to “go figure”.\u00a0 Maybe they need to acknowledge that perhaps they don’t really know enough about what’s causing the earth’s climate to change over time well enough to predict squat with accuracy.<\/p>\n

After all, they’ve not exactly had a great track record over the last 60 years.\u00a0 Nor have they been exactly consistent in their predictions and claims.<\/p>\n

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(Hat tip to Drudge and to Michaal Bastasch at The Daily Caller<\/span>, who provided this story<\/a> containing the link to the Harper’s article.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In keeping with the spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 thaw\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 snowstorm hitting the NE USA, I thought I’d provide this … A Cooling “Blast from the Past”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}