1951 : MIT Scientist Predicted The Ice Age Scare

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1. Blade says:

   August 14, 2011 at 2:58 pm

   File this under ‘One of the rare accurate climate realists found in the overwhelmingly alarmist record’. He said 15 years of cooling but it turned into more like 30.

   Pretty much a predecessor to that smart lady you found in 1979 …

   http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/1979-before-the-hockey-team-destroyed-climate-science/

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   • Blade says:

     August 15, 2011 at 11:31 am

     Plain text …

     The Canberra Times (ACT) Saturday 31 March 1951

     WEATHER REALLY IS CHANGING

     NEW YORK, Friday.

     Sunspot activity indicates that the world will have generally cooler summers and colder winters during the next 15 years, according to a forecast based on the study of sunspot cycles going back to 1790.

     Dr. H. C. Willett, meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said today that official records of sunspot activity linked their activity with weather conditions in all parts of the world.

     He said the next peak of sunspot activity would be delayed until 1962 and possibly longer.

     He based this statement on the fact that the 1947 maximum was maintaining a more prolonged higher level of activity than the corresponding maximum in 1870, or even that of 1897 to which it bore the closest resemblance.

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2. Andy WeissDC says:

   August 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm

   Willett prdicted the cold period from the late 1950’s into the 1980’s. He accurately predicted the late 1970′ would be particularly cold. Willett also predected temps would moderate toward the end of the 20th Century. He was amazingly accurate.

   Willett used sunspot cycles to make his forecast. I don’t recall CO2 ever entering the discussion.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     August 14, 2011 at 7:29 pm

     aerosols

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