It's April 28, 1975, and you pick up the latest Newsweek to find this article [PDF].
It's scary! The earth is cooling off and a new Ice Age is threatening your way of life:
The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now.
Unfortunately none of the scientists have theories on what caused impending catastrophe:
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery.
At the end of the article a solution is implied:
... the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did in past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. ... some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot...
Notice the problems listed in the last citation? Apparently fixing the climate would be much easier without the current population growth and national sovereignty.
Knowing what you know now, imagine what today would be like if these solutions had been carried out.
Fast forward to September of 2009, and you read this Newsweek article on Global Warming.
Too few cold days disrupts the plants' flowering schedule which in turn affects pollination and hurts yield.
Sound familiar? Yes, but this article has a more direct answer to the problem:
In response to agricultural demands, the Waxman-Markey bill exempts the agricultural industry from emission caps and cedes control over what activities warrant carbon offset credit to the Agricultural Department, not the EPA.
Government has the answer. There is no question, and there are no alternatives. Only more legislation can save us. That's what Newsweek would have you to believe.
It's scary! The earth is cooling off and a new Ice Age is threatening your way of life:
The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now.
Unfortunately none of the scientists have theories on what caused impending catastrophe:
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery.
At the end of the article a solution is implied:
... the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did in past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. ... some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot...
Notice the problems listed in the last citation? Apparently fixing the climate would be much easier without the current population growth and national sovereignty.
Knowing what you know now, imagine what today would be like if these solutions had been carried out.
Fast forward to September of 2009, and you read this Newsweek article on Global Warming.
Too few cold days disrupts the plants' flowering schedule which in turn affects pollination and hurts yield.
Sound familiar? Yes, but this article has a more direct answer to the problem:
In response to agricultural demands, the Waxman-Markey bill exempts the agricultural industry from emission caps and cedes control over what activities warrant carbon offset credit to the Agricultural Department, not the EPA.
Government has the answer. There is no question, and there are no alternatives. Only more legislation can save us. That's what Newsweek would have you to believe.
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