This Article Is Frightening To Me

[hiss srq]

I went to check my mail on AOL and came upon this. This really freaked me out.

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a ... 0000000001 (http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/rising-seas-threaten-to-destroy-us/20070622175809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001)

[Tom_Turner]

Well, from what I read, cutting C02 has very little to do with Global Warming but since all efforts will go to that, I guess what will be, will be.....but who knows whats really going to happen.

Could well be Global Cooling by then or whatever.... I'm more concerned with Honey Bees vanishing ..... that could prove to be catastrophic...and not because we won't have honey...

Tom

[nwafan20]

Alright, Mel, lets not argue that much in this thread ;)

Basically, the global temperature was hotter before, before the industrial revolution even, and then it got lower. It has raised again, and they predict in the next century we are going to get fairly cold (mini global cooling period)

These are quotes made after WWII in our cooling period, anything seem like what is being said today?


Apocalypse Then
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.

-- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)
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. Population control is the only answer

-- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000

-- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
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, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion

-- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century

-- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.

-- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
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 "The Cooling", 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.

-- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)