“LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD Sunday, March 11, 1979 Page 8A
DENVER (AP) — The Midwest is buried under unusually heavy snows.
California goes through two winters of extreme drought, then is inundated by rain. The South shivers with unaccustomed cold.
Recurrent drought brings famine and death to areas of West Africa. India is soaked by floods; northern Europe battered by severe storms.
What’s happening to our climate” Do such increasingly frequent extremes portend a new pattern? Are we headed for another ice age? Or trouble from a gradual heating of the Earth by mankind’s industrial and agricultural activities?
One thing is indisputable: the world has been cooling off since World War II, something like one degree Fahrenheit.”
— “… Are we headed for another ice age? Or trouble from a gradual heating of the Earth by mankind’s industrial and agricultural activities? …”
Exxon would not have known jack about burning fossil fuels exclusively causing global warming – “hottest year evah!” – back in the 1970s. As I pointed out yesterday in my dissection of “Chicago v BP et al.” ( http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=16237 ), that’s one of the two fatal problems with the ExxonKnew lawsuits. The other problem is their blatantly false accusations that skeptic climate scientists are paid to spread disinformation.
The last time I looked, it was the alarmists that received of the order of 200 billion since the 1980s, while most skeptics are working on their own dime.
Exactly. Myself, included on that dime. When the far-leftists accuse us of being well-funded, it’s psychological projection about their side. Common misconception among that mob might be that the most effective means of solving the ‘climate crisis’ would be to have a prominent public enviro group leader making the loudest noise. Not so. As I’ve detailed at my GelbspanFiles blog, the longest-serving leader of Greenpeace USA resigned from his job only to disappear into an LLC company having no public presence. Why? Because that’s where the MONEY is and that’s where the power influence is.
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I remember that winter like no other. Iowa, where I resided, was buried in snow such as I’d never seen growing up 150 miles to the north, in southern Minnesota.