In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
Too much ice in the Arctic back then! Throw black soot on it and the earth will warm up. Wait! Now they say the opposite! Reducing the ice in the Arctic makes record cold and snow happen all over the Northern Hemisphere!
DOH!
Sounds like a great idea for an article.
I think the idea was originally yours.
You are doing an article?
Yes! Warming is bad, because it creates cooling which is bad, because it creates warming. And? Ignorant non-comm… conservatives!
It’s settled science, confirmed by 99.9 percent of all scientists in the field, that it was a freindly climate between 1986 and 1997. It has to be about that climate. Then the global warming started, and now it’s warmer than in 100000 years. This will end up in chaotic weather catastrophes which kills each and everyone of us if we don’t take steps to introduce commu… plan economy. Ignorant non-com… conservatives!
1965: Worry about cooling in Greenland.
http://www.climate4you.com/ClimateAndHistory%201950-1999.htm#1965: Worry about cooling in Greenland
I thought warming was more to worry about.
The 1986 to 1997 period produced Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which devastated S. Florida and the 1993 Superstorm, which set snowfall records throughout the eastern third of the US. So the climate was not heaven on earth, even then!
Also our last major cornbelt drought in 1988.
“Is this the end of the world? No, this is the world.”
~Michael Crichton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QQwNevED8
Michael Crichton on “The Language of Fear”. In the video he talks about reports of fear through the years.
4:10 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5BRkHSHyCc&feature=related
Richard Lindzen, funny anecdotal alarmism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcHtaX87BTI