Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? An old Washington Post story indicates he did.
On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming.” It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man’s use of fossil fuels.
The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in “the next 50 years” fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees.
Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, Rasool claimed, “could be sufficient to trigger an ice age.”
Aiding Rasool’s research, the Post reported, was a “computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen,” who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time.
So we’re supposed to believe these folks again? The vehement Hansen, or chicken little is still at it. Maybe Hansen is just getting old and feeling somewhat irrelevant so he needs to give it one more shot.
As far back as I can or care to remember, the climate has been changing on a regular basis. I remember years where some months were cold, then it would start warming in some cases to over 100 degrees F (except for a period of time I lived in Los Angeles, where it seemed to stay in the 70’s and 80’s for the most part), then it would get cold again sometimes to minus 20 deg F. This happened over and over again.
“They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere,” the Post said in the story, which was spotted last week by Washington resident John Lockwood, who was doing research at the Library of Congress and alerted the Washington Times to his finding.
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This is a man, as Lockwood noted in his message to the Times’ John McCaslin, who has called those skeptical of his global warming theory “court jesters.” We wonder: What choice words did he have for those who were skeptical of the ice age theory in 1971?
All this doesn’t say much for the Columbia University science program either. Higher learning or just getting high? Yeah, I remember college, I’m opting for the latter.
