In Search Of...With Leonard Nimoy (1978) On Global Cooling

I linked a post to the Blog Prof earlier today regarding a post about "Global Cooling", In it were three YOU TUBE links to "In Search Of", with Leonard Nimoy from 1975, I remember and loved watching the show as a kid. It's hokey to look at today, and many episodes were dubious. This episode was obviously dubious because it was wrong, but it demonstrates how we have come full circle from forecasts of a "NEW ICE AGE", to "MELTING POLAR CAPS".

NEWSWEEK 1975: Global Cooling Caused Tornado. NEWSWEEK 2011: Global Warming Caused Tornados

A great entry from The Blog Prof. I'll post the YOu tube separately.

From: The Blog Prof

As it is, the some of the same people that in the 1970s were predicting our doom because of global cooling caused by our activity, are now saying the exact opposite. And I do mean the exact opposite. Via Jazz Shaw: Tornadoes Absolutely Caused by Global Warming. Or Cooling. Or Something

Inevitably the devastating tornadoes that killed more than 300 people in the US prompted Newsweek to ask: “Is global warming responsible for wild weather?” The answer, it found, is “yes”.

Another Newsweek article cited “the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded”, killing “more than 300 people”, as among “the ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically”. But that article was published on April 28, 1975, when Newsweek listed the US tornado disaster of 1974 as one of the harbingers of disastrous global cooling, heralding the approach of a new ice age.

And a flashback from TIME magazine:

In a story about the coming ice age on June 24, 1974 the magazine reported:

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds — the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.

Related: Flashback Video (1970s): In Search Of... THE COMING ICE AGE!