The Patriot Post® · A Compilation of News Articles on the Global Cooling Scare of the 1970's

By Anthony Watts ·
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/17032-a-compilation-of-news-articles-on-the-global-cooling-scare-of-the-1970-s-2013-03-04

Does the bullet point list for solutions to global cooling at right look familiar? It reads almost like some of the manifestos we get from warmists today, including the suspension of Democracy as the article in the Owosso Newspaper1 clearly demonstrates.

(Thanks to Poptech2 for the compilation.)

During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause.

Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television3.

News articles:

1.) 1970 - Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age In the Future4 (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)

2.) 1970 - Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself?5 (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)

3.) 1970 - New Ice Age May Descend On Man6 (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)

4.) 1970 - Pollution Prospect A Chilling One1 (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)

5.) 1970 - Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society7 (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)

6.) 1970 - Cold Facts About Pollution8 (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)

7.) 1970 - Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports9 (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)

8.) 1970 - Pollution Called Ice Age Threat10 (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)

9.) 1970 - Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age11 (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)

10.) 1971 - Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground12 (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)

11.) 1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming13 (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)

12.) 1971 - Ice Age Around the Corner14 (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)

13.) 1971 - New Ice Age Coming - It’s Already Getting Colder15 (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)

14.) 1971 - Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight16 (The Day, November 1, 1971)

15.) 1971 - Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age17 (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)

16.) 1972 - Air pollution may cause ice age18 (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)

17.) 1972 - Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)

18.) 1972 - Scientist predicts new ice age19 (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)

19.) 1972 - British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere20 (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)

20.) 1972 - Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age21 (Portsmouth Times, ‎September 11, 1972‎)

21.) 1972 - New Ice Age Slipping Over North22 (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)

22.) 1972 - Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North23 (The Age, September 12, 1972)

23.) 1972 - Weather To Get Colder24 (Montreal Gazette, ‎September 12, 1972‎)

24.) 1972 - British climate expert predicts new Ice Age25 (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)

25.) 1972 - Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age26 (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)

26.) 1972 - Science: Another Ice Age?27 (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)

27.) 1973 - The Ice Age Cometh28 (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)

28.) 1973 - Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way29 (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)

29.) 1974 - New evidence indicates ice age here30 (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)

30.) 1974 - Another Ice Age?31 (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)

31.) 1974 - 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near32 (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)

32.) 1974 - Ice Age, worse food crisis seen33 (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)

33.) 1974 - Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age34 (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)

34.) 1974 - Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says35 (Beaver Country Times, ‎December 4, 1974‎)

35.) 1974 - Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel36 (The Telegraph, ‎December 5, 1974‎)

36.) 1974 - More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster37 (Daily Sentinel - ‎December 5, 1974‎)

37.) 1974 - Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age38 (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)

38.) 1975 - Climate Changes Called Ominous39 (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)

39.) 1975 - Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities40 (Science News, March 1, 1975)

40.) 1975 - B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon?41 (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)

41.) 1975 - Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming42 (Eugene Register-Guard, ‎March 2, 1975‎)

42.) 1975 - Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade43 (Youngstown Vindicator - ‎March 2, 1975‎)

43.) 1975 - Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age?44 (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)

44.) 1975 - New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen45 (Times Daily, ‎March 2, 1975‎)

45.) 1975 - There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead46 (Tri City Herald, ‎March 2, 1975‎)

46.) 1975 - Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age?47 (The Robesonian, ‎March 3, 1975‎)

47.) 1975 - The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate48 (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)

48.) 1975 - The Cooling World49 (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)

49.) 1975 - Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead50 (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)

50.) 1975 - In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)

51.) 1975 - Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age51 (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)

52.) 1976 - The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book]52 (Lowell Ponte, 1976)

53.) 1977 - Blizzard - What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book]53 (George Stone, 1977)

54.) 1977 - The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book]54 (The Impact Team, 1977)

55.) 1976 - Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)

1977 - The Big Freeze55 (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)

56.) 1977 - We Will Freeze in the Dark56 (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)

57.) 1978 - The New Ice Age [Book]57 (Henry Gilfond, 1978)

58.) 1978 - Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead58 (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)

59.) 1978 - Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’59 (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)

60.) 1978 - Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder60 (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)

61.) 1978 - It’s Going To Get Colder61 (Boca Raton News, ‎January 17, 1978‎)

62.) 1978 - Believe new ice age is coming62 (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)

63.) 1978 - The Coming Ice Age63 (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)

64.) 1978 - An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears64 (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)

65.) 1979 - A Choice of Catastrophes - The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book]65 (Isaac Asimov, 1979)

66.) 1979 - Get Ready to Freeze66 (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)

67.) 1979 - New ice age almost upon us?67 (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)

Author’s Note: A couple of the news stories are duplicates in different papers with slightly different titles. This is intentional to show that these types of stories were not isolated to a certain regional paper.

68.) And from the National Center for Atmospheric Research68:

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While a silent majority of the scientific community may have been more skeptical, you ironically find one of the most outspoken supporters of modern day Al Gore style global warming alarmism was promoting global cooling in the 1970s, the late Dr. Steven Schneider;

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - Life of Reason, George Santayana

Related articles:

69.) CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather71 (climatedepot.com)

70.) 1974 Shock News: Global Cooling To Kill One Billion People72 (junkscience.com)

71.) NCAR 1974 : Global Cooling And Extreme Weather Is The New Normal73 (stevengoddard.wordpress.com)

Anthony Watts is a former television meteorologist who now operates the most viewed website on climate change and global warming in the world at wattsupwiththat.com74.

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