Runaway Global Climate Change

Look at this distressing report from Newsweek:

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 output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

Sounds pretty scary doesn't it. If you're a weather freak like I am, you probably read that last sentence and said "wait a minute, there was no massive tornado outbreak last year!", and you'd be right. Why? Because this report is from a Newsweek article called "The Cooling World" published April 28, 1975 (h/t The Corner).

When you read the article you'll be surprised at how similar the warnings are to what we hear today, and also how wrong they were. Why should we believe the scientists have got it right now, when they were so wrong back then.

Believe me, global warming is much more about politics and control than climate science.