“Climate Change” is now synonymous with “global warming”. However, in the 1970’s, global cooling was the major topic. Wikipedia now claims that there was no consensus among climatologists about global cooling in the 70’s and that such a consensus is just an urban myth. Is this just an example of Soviet-style re-writing of history to fit current political needs?
Having lived through the 70’s, I decided to check through my sources to see if mainstream climatologists did fret about a coming ice age in the 70’s …
I found two sources:
- “The Weather Machine and the Threat of Ice” by Nigel Calder, 1974, published by the BBC (there was an associated TV series); 143 pages.
- “The Cooling World” by Peter Gwynne, Newsweek, April 28, 1975.