Thread by @hypnolysis

This Newsweek article from April 28, 1975 is a good example of early climate change propaganda. They used many of the tactics we see being employed today and the narrative was similar but with one major difference: they were talking about “global cooling” not “global warming”.

“There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically…The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard pressed to keep up with it.”

“The central fact is…the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend…but are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.”

“…NOAA reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures…satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow…study released last month by NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground…diminished by 1.3%…” #SAI

“Climatologists concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as MELTING THE ARCTIC ICE CAP by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.”

The fact that this idea was being thrown around so much leads me to wonder if anyone actually carried out any of these ludicrous ideas. Julian Huxley, the older brother of author Aldous Huxley, proposed to melt the ice cap with nukes - to “atomize the arctic”.

Listen to Leonard Nimoy following the science on climate change in 1979. 👌

“What scientists are telling us now is that the threat of an ice age is not as remote as they once thought. During the lifetime of our grandchildren, Arctic cold and perpetual snow…a polar desert.”