gtemps.jpg. While everyone is looking at the trends on the top side of this chart, it is the very obvious trend that is shown on the bottom side of the chart that is more concerning. Follow the trend or call your friends in Buffalo, NY and ask them about their concerns respecting Global Warming this morning. From a 1971 edition of the Washington Post this article was provided: It didn't copy well so you'll have to read between the lines but if anyone wants the full article, PM me and I'll send it to you.
"U. S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming
By Victor Cohn
International Study of Man's
be simply necessary for men
Washington Post Staff Writer
Impact on Climate now
to stop most fossil fuel-burn-
The world could be as lIt-
being held in Stockholm as ing-use of coal, oil, natural
tle as 50 or 60 years away
a prelude to a world envi-
gas and automobile gasoline
from a disastrous new ice
ronmental conference there
-and switch in the main to
age, a leading atmospheric next June,
scientist predicts.
Dr. S. I. Rasool of the Na-
Dr. Gordon F. MacDonald,
tional
scientist-member of Presi-
Pollution controls alone, he
Aeronautics
and
Space Administration and
President Nixon's three-man
said, cannot, do the job, "I
Columbia University
Council on Environmental
think you have to stop the
that:
SaYS
Quality, said in an interview
source,"
• "In the next 50 years."
that these conclusions point
A new ice age would flood
the fine dust man constantly
up "one of the serious prob-
the world's coastal cities
lems" U.S. and other dele-
puts into the atmosphere by
and further lower tempera-
fossil fuel-burning could
gates must address next tures to build up new gla-
year.
ciers that could eventually
screen out so much sunlight
that the average tempera-
He called Rasool "a first- . cover huge areas.
ture could drop by six de-
rate atmospheric physicist"
Scientists have long de.
grees,
whose estimate that fuel
bated whether man's activ.
• If sustained over "sev-
dust could drop tempera-
ity is actually heating or
eral years" -"five to 10," he
tures by six degrees "is con-
cooling the earth, if either,
estimated-"such a tempera-
sistent with estimates I and
A "1970 Study of Critical
ture decrease could be suffi-
others have made."
Environmental Problems"
cient to trigger an ice age!"
Whether this could cause concluded. that the Rasool.
These
conclusions-in-
an ice age "within five or 50
Schneider kind of prediction
cluding the ominous excla.
years or even more," he
was impossible to make yet.
mation point rare in sci-
said, "I wouldn't want to
"The area 'of greatest un
entific publication
are
guess."
certainty," that study con-
printed in this week's issue
But he
"agreed com-
cluded, is "our current lack
of the journal Science out
of knowledge" of the optical
coder kiened by. Rasschmad
properties of man made dust
"in. scattering or absorbing
der.
They are also being pres.
ented by Schneider at an in-
ternational network to moni-
tor atmospheric dust.
If his calculations provelargestantal" fastest