From “Same fears, different name? – Maurizio Morabito uncovers a 1974 CIA report showing that the ‘scientific consensus’ then was that the world was cooling” published on Dec 10 in Spiked Online
[…] We have a ‘widely accepted [by the scientific community]…global cooling trend’, at least judging from Mitchell’s work in 1972; doubts about that growing in the same scientific community from 1975/1976, as per Damon and Kunen’s paper; but not early enough to prevent Newsweek from publishing its 1975 article, one that even mentions a certain Dr Murray Mitchell. That means that pieces of the global cooling puzzle do suggest that cooling was a widely-held view in the 1970s.
Admittedly, such an agreed view did not last the whole decade: rather, it concerned the 1972 to 1975 period. Says who? Says the CIA, in a unique report I was recently able to re-discover in the British Library […]
This article is much longer than the Spectator’s and contains all the evidence one should need to establish that there was a scientific consensus on global cooling in the period 1972-1975.
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[…] Global Cooling – What The Scientists Said posted earlier, Maurizio Morabito reminds us of his earlier documented history of the 70′s cooling consensus: A little more than couple of years ago I broke the story […]
[…] Ancient Rome or the Pharaos is by establishing that there is something special about the “global cooling the 1970′s debate“, something the unfortunately gets in the way and prevents people from recognizing what has […]
[…] should now be understood by all, the scientific consensus in 1972 was that the world was cooling. Even Peterson, Connolley and Fleck state as much between the lines of their much-misunderstood (by […]
[…] Consensus Keeps Piling Up 10 06 2010 Not just Damon and Kunen’s (already mentioned here)…by chance, I have found yet another Science paper (this time Broecker from August 1975) […]
4mins 44 onwards about CRU and funding etc is also very revealing. (I paused to pop by here for the previous comment).
Maurizio
From the horse’s mouth – see video 5 (all are worth watching) – at about 2 minutes (interesting body language – 3 nose wiggles) plus a reference with clip to a BBC documentary. Can the stoat weasel out of this one?:
http://thedogatemydata.blogspot.com/2009/12/sbs-greenhouse-documentary-from-1990.html
Luke is referring to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7zXN4vHm1o and the global cooling bit starts at 1:23. Very interesting stuff indeed.
With food supplies so precariously dependent on the “whims” of nature, why do the “wise” men require us to effectively destroy food in order to produce “fuel” which is less efficient than what is already at hand?
And if, G-d forbid, worldwide disaster hits crops, then not only will people starve, but energy supplies will be hit, as well, thereby further limiting our ability to cope with the consequences.
If that’s the best our “brightest” can come up with, they are not only not very bright, but downright dangerous, as well.
‘Translation’, not ‘transcript’.
For a sceptical (or perhaps simply defiant) view of global cooling, see the Red Flag (China’s now-defunct ideological journal) as quoted in a column by Victor Zorza in _The Times_ on 31st December 1973 entitled ‘New Ice Age pondered in Peking’.
I’d love to read a transcript of the original Red Flag article if you can find it. Zorza said it appeared in ‘last month’s issue’.
What Zorza said it said:
‘What shall we do when the minor Ice Age arrives? Will we have a doomsday? Certainly not. … Will mankind in fact return to an era of rising floods and fierce beasts? … Marxists are not afraid of heaven, or earth, or ghosts, let alone glaciers. Man has faced glaciers many times, and each time he is the victor, not the vanquished. If man faces glaciers again, what is there to fear? … the weather may well remain unpredictable, but we can come up with measures to counter such unpredictability. The weather may have one bag of tricks, but we have 10 bags of tricks waiting. Come what may, the revolutionary people are equal to any situation.’
Happy hunting!
EXCELLENT POST!
I really like your blog – keep up the great work!!
I worked for Murray Mitchell for one year. He was a very good scientist and I think his temperature reconstruction for the Northen Hemisphere has merit. Its shape is very much like the censored Briffa MXD tree density series. Both series have 1900 and 1970 at about the same level with a peak warmth in between around 1935-1940.
I recently looked at one of his papers from that time where he discusses warming due to carbon dioxide. He says about 0.2 C of the warming can be attributed to CO2 which translates to a 1.07 C warming for a doubling of CO2.