Climate

Contradictions, failed prediction, obfuscation, the pseudo-science that is used to control the gullible. Contradictions, failed prediction, obfuscation, the pseudo-science that is used to control the weak minded (non-skeptical).   Cooling, Deadlines, Earth Day, Pollution, Sea Ice, Warming ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni

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❝ the return of an Ice Age, unsettled weather conditions now appear more likely than those of the abnormally favorable period which ended in 1972. ❞ ~ American Meteorological Society ℹ️ October 10, 1975

❝ Evidence has been presented and discussed to show a cooling trend over the Northern Hemisphere since around 1940, amounting to over 0.5°C... ❞ ~ American Meteorological Society ℹ️ November 1980

❝ A new glacial insolation regime, expected to last 8000 years, began just recently. Mean global temperatures may eventually drop about 10° C in the next hundred years. ❞ ~ Boreas ℹ️ March 1972

❝ The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. ❞ ~ CIA ℹ️ August 1974

❝ carbon dioxide content and atmospheric turbidity (dustiness)... resulting in a rapid downward trend of temperature. ❞ ~ The Changing Global Environment ℹ️ pp 139-147 ~ 1975

❝ One of the questions that nags at climatologists, is when and how fast a new ice age might descend. A Belgian scientist suggests this could happen sooner and swifter than you might think. ❞ ~ Christian Science Monitor ℹ️ Nov 14, 1979

❝ Winter temperatures in the North Atlantic region [will] fall by 20 or more degrees Fahrenheit within 10 years. ❞ ~ Columbia University ℹ️ Wallace S. Broecker (1997)

❝ There is very important climatic change (Global Cooling)... if it continues, will affect the whole human occupation of the earth - like a billion people starving. ❞ ~ Fortune Magazine ℹ️ February 1974

❝ ...a new “Little Ice Age” could begin in just four years ❞ ~ Habibullo Abdussamatov ℹ️ Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory ~ 2010

❝ The Brutal Buffalo (NY) winter might be common all over the United States. Climate experts believe the next Ice Age is on its way. According to recent evidence, it could come sooner than anyone expected. ❞ ~ TV Show: In Search of... ℹ️ The Coming Ice Age ~ 1978

❝ Fifth ice age is on the way… Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold. ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ October 23, 1912

❝ New Ice Age Coming — It’s Already Getting Colder.... killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, and the Russian steppes. ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ Oct 24, 1971

❝ Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age. ❞ ~ Los Angeles Times ℹ️ December 23, 1962

❝ This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos, and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. ❞ ~ Lowell Ponte ℹ️ "The Cooling", 1976

❝ ...the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ February 24, 1895

❝ The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade. If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ December 29, 1974

❝ After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ January 30, 1961

❝ An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years... ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ January 5, 1978

❝ U.S. and USSR are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid... and the onset of ice ages. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ July 18, 1970

❝ Scientists ponder why World’s Climate is changing; a major cooling is considered to be inevitable. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ May 21, 1975

❝ The climatic warming trend... has given way since the 1940s to a cooling trend, which is most marked in higher latitudes. ❞ ~ Nature ℹ️ June 1972

❝ [T]he Earth is cooling. There now seems little doubt that changes over the past few years are more than a minor statistical fluctuation. ❞ ~ Nature ℹ️ March 6, 1975

❝ the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down... [Meteorologists] are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. ❞ ~ Newsweek ℹ️ The Cooling World : April 28, 1975

❝ Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born. ❞ ~ Newsweek magazine ℹ️ January 26, 1970

❝ A review of selected literature... suggests some similarities between the patterns of climate in the 1960s and the climate of the Little Ice Age. ❞ ~ Quaternary Research ℹ️ June 1974

❝ ...the present warm epoch has reached its final phase... the natural end of this interglacial is undoubtedly near. ❞ ~ Quaternary Research ℹ️ Dec 1974

❝ The recently appearing trend to cooler conditions noticed here and elsewhere could be indicative of a return to the climatic character of those earlier years. ❞ ~ Monthly Weather review ℹ️ Feb. 1968

❝ Convection in the Antarctic Ice Sheet Leading to a Surge of the Ice Sheet and Possibly to a New Ice Age. ❞ ~ Science Magazine ℹ️ 1970

❝ [Pollution] will increase 6 to 8-fold in the next 50 years... sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Science Magazine ℹ️ July 1971

❝ the cooling trend to the year 2000 would... [impact spring wheat and rice, causing food shortages] ❞ ~ Science ℹ️ May 9, 1975

❝ Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age. ❞ ~ Time Magazine ℹ️ June 24, 1974

❝ The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to the conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age. ❞ ~ Time Magazine ℹ️ September 10th, 1923

❝ Arctic ice will wipe out Canada... North America [will] disappear as far south as the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be “wiped out. ❞ ~ Chicago Tribune ℹ️ August 9, 1923

❝ For the past 25 to 30 years the Earth has been getting progressively cooler... ❞ ~ U.N. Courier ℹ️ Aug-Sep 1973

❝ In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ July 9, 1971

❝ Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters–the worst may be yet to come. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ January 11, 1970

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❝ Today (1996) 25 million environmental refugees roam the globe... By 2010, this number will grow tenfold to 200 million. ❞ ~ The Heat is On ℹ️ Ross Gelbspan (1996)

❝ By 2000, British and American oil will have diminished to a trickle… Ozone depletion and global warming threaten food shortages… ❞ ~ 5000 Days to Save the Planet ℹ️ Edward Goldsmith (1991)

❝ At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years. ❞ ~ 5000 Days to Save the Planet ℹ️ Edward Goldsmith (1991)

❝ ...we are now given not 10 years to save the rainforests, but in many cases five years. Madagascar will largely be gone in five years unless something happens. ❞ ~ ABC ℹ️ The Miracle Planet - April 22, 1990

❝ Researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010. ❞ ~ Associated Press ℹ️ May 15, 1989

❝ Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. ❞ ~ Associated Press ℹ️ June 30, 1989

❝ [by 2008] The West Side Highway will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. ❞ ~ Columbia University ℹ️ Professor James Hansen ~ June 1988

❝ ...there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015... And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that ❞ ~ Université Laval ℹ️ Professor Louis Fortier (2007)

❝ sea ice will be gone in September 2014 ❞ ~ Arctic News ℹ️ Sam Carana (2012)

❝ ...our projection of 2013 [for the elimaination of artic Sea Ice] is already too conservative... ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ Professor Wieslaw Maslowski (2007)

❝ in a few years, or a decade or so, we’ll go into a permanent El Nino... you’ll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years. ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ November 7, 1997

❝ Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. ❞ ~ The Birmingham Post ℹ️ July 26, 1999

❝ The planet could face an “ecological and agricultural catastrophe” by the next decade if global warming trends continue. ❞ ~ Carl Sagan – Buffalo News ℹ️ Oct. 15, 1990

❝ [CSU] anticipates nine hurricanes, five are expected to develop into intense or major hurricanes. (It was 6 and 2). ❞ ~ Colorado State University ℹ️ Science Daily (2007)

❝ Winter temperatures in the North Atlantic region [will] fall by 20 or more degrees Fahrenheit within 10 years. ❞ ~ Columbia University ℹ️ Wallace S. Broecker (1997)

❝ Some predictions for the next decade (1990’s) are not difficult to make… Americans may see the ’80s migration to the Sun Belt reverse as a global warming trend rekindles interest in cooler climates. ❞ ~ Dallas Morning News ℹ️ December 5th 1989

❝ It is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO2 will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter. ❞ ~ Daniel Moynihan ℹ️ 1969

❝ Huge sand dunes extending east from Colorado’s Front Range may be on the verge of breaking through the thin topsoil, transforming America’s rolling High Plains into a desert... ❞ ~ Denver Post ℹ️ April 18, 1990

❝ By) 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots. The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands. ❞ ~ The Environmental Defense Fund ℹ️ Michael Oppenheimer, Dead Heat ~ 1990

❝ In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ Earth Day (1970)

❝ The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ The Population Bomb (1968)

❝ By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people… If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ 1971

❝ The global temperature will increase every year by 0.2° C ❞ ~ German Federal Ministry of Environment ℹ️ Michael Müller (2007)

❝ ...within a decade, the disease (Malaria) will be common again on the Spanish coast. The effects of global warming are coming home to roost in the developed world. ❞ ~ The Guardian ℹ️ September 11, 1999

❝ It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won’t be any ice in the Arctic in the summer, "the Arctic death spiral" ❞ ~ David Vaughan ℹ️ IPCC scientist (2012)

❝ a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ May 16, 1972

❝ (By 1995) somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct. ❞ ~ Look Magazine ℹ️ April 1970

❝ A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said… Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years. (2011) ❞ ~ San Jose Mercury News ℹ️ June 11, 1986

❝ At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions. ❞ ~ NASA ℹ️ Jay Zwally (2007)

❝ NOAA announced its predictions for the 2006 hurricane season: 13-16 named storms, 4 hurricanes of Cat-3 or above, double the yearly average. (It was a below-average year) ❞ ~ NOAA ℹ️ 2006

❝ By the year 2000…the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine. ❞ ~ Peter Gunter ℹ️ North Texas State University (1970)

❝ "We're doing to see more floods, more droughts, more wildfires", "One carton of milk is $12.99", "Gas reached over $9 a gallon", and they showed NYC half submerged. All by 2015, if we don't address Climate Change. 🎦 ❞ ~ Good Morning America ℹ️ Earth 2100 (2008)

❝ The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade. If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ December 29, 1974

❝ New Ice Age by 1995? ...We may be less than seven years away (from major ice age caused by Greenhouse gasses)... ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ July 15, 1988

❝ Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ February 20, 1969

❝ Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer... ❞ ~ National Geographic ℹ️ University of Manitoba (2008)

❝ Officials with the Panama Canal Authority... warn that global warming, increased shipping traffic, and bigger seagoing vessels could cripple the canal’s capacity to operate within a decade. ❞ ~ CNN ℹ️ November 1, 2000

❝ the cooling trend to the year 2000 would... [impact spring wheat and rice, causing food shortages] ❞ ~ Science ℹ️ May 9, 1975

❝ There is a possibility of an ice-free Arctic Ocean for a short period in summer perhaps as early as 2015. ❞ ~ Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report ℹ️ 2009

❝ I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean… ❞ ~ Sierra Club ℹ️ Paul Beckwith (2013)

❝ Most of the great environmental struggles will be either won or lost in the 1990s and by the next century, it will be too late. ❞ ~ Smithsonian Institution ℹ️ Thomas E. Lovejoy (1993)

❝ Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting even. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is... ❞ ~ Senior scientist at CRU ℹ️ Mar 20, 2000

❝ New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now. ❞ ~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch ℹ️ Sept. 17, 1989

❝ In ten years' time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu’s nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged underwater as global warming rises sea levels. ❞ ~ CNN ℹ️ Mar 29, 2001

❝ Environmental refugees to top 50 million in 5 years... ❞ ~ United Nations News Release ℹ️ UNU-EHS Director Janos Bogardi (2005)

❝ In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ July 9, 1971

❝ Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. ❞ ~ Washington University ℹ️ Earth Day 1970

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❝ In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ Earth Day (1970)

❝ The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ The Population Bomb (1968)

❝ By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people… If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ 1971

❝ Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. ❞ ~ Washington University ℹ️ Earth Day 1970

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❝ carbon dioxide content and atmospheric turbidity (dustiness)... resulting in a rapid downward trend of temperature. ❞ ~ The Changing Global Environment ℹ️ pp 139-147 ~ 1975

❝ By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half… ❞ ~ Life Magazine ℹ️ January 1970

❝ Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born. ❞ ~ Newsweek magazine ℹ️ January 26, 1970

❝ [Pollution] will increase 6 to 8-fold in the next 50 years... sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Science Magazine ℹ️ July 1971

❝ In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ July 9, 1971

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❝ ...there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015... And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that ❞ ~ Université Laval ℹ️ Professor Louis Fortier (2007)

❝ sea ice will be gone in September 2014 ❞ ~ Arctic News ℹ️ Sam Carana (2012)

❝ ...our projection of 2013 [for the elimaination of artic Sea Ice] is already too conservative... ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ Professor Wieslaw Maslowski (2007)

❝ [Russian meteorologists] believe that the earth is entering a new cycle of warmer weather... It has been noted that year by year, for the past two decades, the fringe of the Polar icepack has been creeping northward in the Barents Sea. ❞ ~ Examiner ℹ️ April 12, 1939

❝ It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won’t be any ice in the Arctic in the summer, "the Arctic death spiral" ❞ ~ David Vaughan ℹ️ IPCC scientist (2012)

❝ a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ May 16, 1972

❝ At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions. ❞ ~ NASA ℹ️ Jay Zwally (2007)

❝ Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ February 20, 1969

❝ Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer... ❞ ~ National Geographic ℹ️ University of Manitoba (2008)

❝ The Oceanographic observations have, however, been even more interesting... In fact, so little ice has never been noted. The expedition all but established a record… ❞ ~ Royal Meteorological Society ℹ️ January 1905

❝ There is a possibility of an ice-free Arctic Ocean for a short period in summer perhaps as early as 2015. ❞ ~ Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report ℹ️ 2009

❝ I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean… ❞ ~ Sierra Club ℹ️ Paul Beckwith (2013)

❝ The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot…. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone… Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ 11/2/1922

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❝ At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years. ❞ ~ 5000 Days to Save the Planet ℹ️ Edward Goldsmith (1991)

❝ Researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010. ❞ ~ Associated Press ℹ️ May 15, 1989

❝ in a few years, or a decade or so, we’ll go into a permanent El Nino... you’ll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years. ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ November 7, 1997

❝ The planet could face an “ecological and agricultural catastrophe” by the next decade if global warming trends continue. ❞ ~ Carl Sagan – Buffalo News ℹ️ Oct. 15, 1990

❝ Globally, 2002 is likely to be warmer than 2001 – it may even break the record set in 1998. ❞ ~ Daily Mirror ℹ️ August 2, 2002

❝ Some predictions for the next decade (1990’s) are not difficult to make… Americans may see the ’80s migration to the Sun Belt reverse as a global warming trend rekindles interest in cooler climates. ❞ ~ Dallas Morning News ℹ️ December 5th 1989

❝ [Russian meteorologists] believe that the earth is entering a new cycle of warmer weather... It has been noted that year by year, for the past two decades, the fringe of the Polar icepack has been creeping northward in the Barents Sea. ❞ ~ Examiner ℹ️ April 12, 1939

❝ a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ May 16, 1972

❝ A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said… Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years. (2011) ❞ ~ San Jose Mercury News ℹ️ June 11, 1986

❝ New Ice Age by 1995? ...We may be less than seven years away (from major ice age caused by Greenhouse gasses)... ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ July 15, 1988

❝ For [Children Today], the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ January 2000

❝ America in longest warm spell since 1776; temperature line records a 25 year rise. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ 3/27/1933

❝ Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ February 20, 1969

❝ Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the Winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ June 23, 1890

❝ A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a “serious international problem"... ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ May 30, 1947

❝ Greenland’s polar climate has moderated so consistently that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area’s southern waters. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ August 29, 1954

❝ (The) extra energy, together with a weak El Nino, is expected to make 2005 warmer than 2003 and 2004 and perhaps even warmer than 1998 ❞ ~ Reuters ℹ️ February 11, 2005

❝ The Oceanographic observations have, however, been even more interesting... In fact, so little ice has never been noted. The expedition all but established a record… ❞ ~ Royal Meteorological Society ℹ️ January 1905

❝ This year (2007) is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, beating the current record set in 1998 ❞ ~ Science Daily ℹ️ Jan. 5, 2007

❝ Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting even. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is... ❞ ~ Senior scientist at CRU ℹ️ Mar 20, 2000

❝ Good bye winter. Never again snow? ❞ ~ Der Spiegel ℹ️ April 1, 2000

❝ New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now. ❞ ~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch ℹ️ Sept. 17, 1989

❝ We are beginning to approximate the kind of warming you should see in the winter season. ❞ ~ Star News ℹ️ Mar 11 2000

❝ Next year(2003) may be warmest recorded: Global temperatures in 2003 are expected to exceed those in 1998 - the hottest year to date. ❞ ~ Telegraph UK ℹ️ December 30, 2002

❝ Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer. ❞ ~ Time Magazine ℹ️ Jan. 2 1939

❝ ...snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture... ❞ ~ UK Independent ℹ️ Mar 20, 2000

❝ The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot…. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone… Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ 11/2/1922

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