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“The Earth Is Cooling, Return of Ice Age Is Feared

—Snow banks cover areas of Baffin Island today which were seasonally snow-free 30 or 40 years before the present cooling, J. T. Andrews and his colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder report. Similarly, pack ice around Iceland is once again becoming the serious hindrance to navigation it was during the “‘little ice age”

14 Apr 1973, Page 8 – Iowa City Press-Citizen

“The threat, according to scientists from a score of institutions who gathered at Brown University in Providence, R.I., recently to share information on “The End of the Present Interglacial,” is not that miles thick ice sheets are about to come sweeping down out of the north, returning us instantaneously to an ice-age climate.

It is rather that there are already signs that the earth is cooling in a cycle similar to those that heralded earlier great glaciations, And, while it may »e several centuries before any major global effects are felt and several thousand years before ice sheets return, preliminary signs are already apparent. Scientists fear that detailed knowledge of past climate cycles and the consequent ability to predict future timetables are still woefully inadequate.

“Global cooling and related rapid changes of environment, substantially exceeding’ the fluctuations experienced by man in historical times, can be expected within the next few millennia; perhaps even centuries,”’ according to a commentary on the Providence meeting by George J.Kukla of Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory in New York, R. K. Matthews of Brown University and J. Murray Mitchell Jr. of the National Oceanic end Atmospheric Administration.”

Aug 13, 1973, page 10 – The Berkeley Gazette at Newspapers.com

“The Miami Herald ‘Sun, Jun 15, 1975 -Page 250

Pack ice around Iceland is becoming a serious navigation hindrance to an extent unmatched since a “little ice age” in the 17th and 18th centuries.

England’s growing season has shortened a week to two weeks since 1950 and the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent since 1964.

@North Atlantic surface waters have been cooling for the last 30 years. The tepid Gulf Stream, a major warming influence on Western European weather, has retreated south about a sixth as far as it did at the height of the last full fledged ice age, 20,000 years ago, according to ocean bed fossil records.”

Jun 15, 1975, page 250 – The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com

NOAA says “Sea ice extent continues to decline, with the last 17 September extents (2007-23) as the lowest on record” “yet resiliency and opportunity lie within diverse partnerships.”

“More frequent extreme weather and climate events are transforming the Arctic, yet resiliency and opportunity lie within diverse partnerships.

The Arctic is increasingly warmer, less frozen, and wetter, with regional extremes in weather, climate patterns, and ecosystem responses. Centering locally and internationally-focused partnerships, long-term observations, and equitable climate solutions provides Arctic communities and nations as well as society-at-large with information and mechanisms to cope with a rapidly changing Arctic.

Sea ice extent continues to decline, with the last 17 September extents (2007-23) as the lowest on record. Sea ice extent was 6th lowest in the satellite record, since 1979.”

Report Card 2023 – NOAA Arctic

There has been no trend in maximum, mean or minimum sea ice extent over the past seventeen years, and extent this year has been above the 21st century average almost every day.

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv

“Unusual weather inevitably stirs up speculation as to cause, in part, no doubt, because we like to talk about the weather anyway. Any prominent event coincident with the exceptional weather is apt to be blamed.”

July 12 1953

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/07/12/110066411.html?pageNumber=160

Like almost all government climate data, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation has been rewritten to create a non-existent warming trend.

“The AMO is currently not updated due to the source dataset (Kaplan SST) not being updated. We apologize for the inconvience. NOAA/NCEI has a time-series of the AMO based on the NOAA ERSSTV5.”

psl.noaa.gov/data/correlation/amon.us.long.data

www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/ersst/v5/index/ersst.v5.amo.dat

” About 15,000 years ago Greenland abruptly warmed by 16 degrees over a period of 50 years. Later studies identified at least 24 of these rapid shifts, now known as Dansgaard-Oeschger events between 100,000 and 11,500 years ago.”

Feb 16, 2011, page 29 – The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com

“He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change.
John Clauser shared the Nobel in physics last year. Now he’s a self-described ‘denier’ of the overwhelming scientific consensus on a warming planet.”

John Clauser won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change. – The Washington Post

“31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs.

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind,

‘There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”

Global Warming Petition Project

Climate experts described a pleasant February day in parts of the US as “The most extreme event in US climatic history”

“Hudson Bay could experience its first ice-free winter within five to 10 years, Ferguson said”

Dec. 6, 2016

Climate change on fast-forward in Arctic, U of M scientist warns – Winnipeg Free Press

Arctic sea ice extent is above the 21st century average.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

“Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window — if even that — before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. Here are a few you need to know: Atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels have risen 38% in the industrial era, from 280 to 385 parts per million (ppm). Scientists have warned that anything above 450 ppm — a warming of 2 degrees Celsius — will result in an unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change.

The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.”

John Kerry  2009

We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change | HuffPost Impact

“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.”

Lawrence Journal-World – Google News Archive Search