TIME MAGAZINE

Monday, Jun. 24, 1974

Science

Another Ice Age?

http://www.junkscience.com/mar06/Time_AnotherIceAge_June241974.pdf

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims.

During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries.

In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest.

Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs.

A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval.

However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.

Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought.

By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south.

Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere — thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.

Climatic Balance.

Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).

Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.

The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time.

But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced.

University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."

Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 Air Force report on governmental manipulation of the weather as a tool to enhance military operations. The United Nations' ENMOD Treaty Resulting treaty from the United Nations' Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. Tsunami Bomb NZ's Devastating War Secret New Zealand Herald, June 30, 2000 "Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at Whangaparaoa in 1944 and 1945. Professor Thomas Leech's work was considered so significant that United States defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed before the end of the war it could have played a role as effective as that of the atom bomb." U.S. Had Advanced Warning of Asian Tsunami: Canadian Professor Daily Times, January 3, 2005 "A Canadian expert has claimed that the US Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning and America’s Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the countries that bore the brunt of the disaster." It Could Happen Tomorrow: Weather Channel 'Forecasts' Hurricane for New York In a promo for an upcoming show, the Weather Channel states: "And when the water arrives, it will come rushing toward 8.2 million New Yorkers, 2 million of them living directly in its path. ... This category 3 hurricane's approached to New York will be deceptively quick and deadly." How do they know this, unless they are privy to a plan? To Own the Weather Frontline Magazine, January 1999 "The U.S. has covertly pursued a military operation, launched during the Vietnam War, to acquire weather modification technology for possible use in combat." Weather Modification: The Law Weather modification, as written into the United States Code. Sustainable Development and Natural Hazzards Mitigation Is Weather/Climate Manipulation being used to relocate populations of people into tightly-controlled sustainable communities, in accordance with Agenda 21? (pdf format) "...one of the roadblocks to implementation is the fact that much of the land within local jurisdictions has already been developed according to practices and traditions that are far from sustainable... the time immediately following a natural disaster provides a community with a unique window of opportunity for inserting an ethic of sustainability...." (page 19) The Leipzig Declaration "As the debate unfolds, it has become increasingly clear that -- contrary to the conventional wisdom -- there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, many climate specialists now agree that actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever... based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically-inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions..." Time and Global Warming FrontPage Magazine, June 2006 "Time's 1974 piece was nowhere near as sensationalized or irresponsible as last week's global warming sermon. With its moralizing tone, overheated rhetoric about "crashing climates" and "glaciers and ice caps turning to slush," plus its parroting of the Green party-line about human-forced global warming, "Be Worried ..." couldn't have been less fair or unbalanced if it had been guest-edited by Al Gore. "Another Ice Age? Time Magazine, June 1974 "... When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity Drudge Report, February 12, 2007 "Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis." Alarmist Global Warming Claims Melt Under Scientific Scrutiny "Sun Times: "Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth', have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them." The author ticks off the global warming lies one by one. A MUST READ Gore Isn't Quite As Green As He's Led the World to Believe "Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself." Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth -- $30,000 Utility Bill "... the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured ... more than 20 times the national average." Relevant Links Weather Modification, Inc. Weather specialists in cloud seeding and general weather modification, including hail suppression. Weather Modification Association Promoting research, development and understanding of weather modification for beneficial uses. Department of Energy Weather Control "Weather modification, the intentional altering of atmospheric conditions to suit the purposes of humankind..." Colorado's Weather Modification Permit Program Step by step instructions on how to file a permit to modify the weather in Colorado. Colorado: What is Weather Modification? Answers to the 20 most often asked questions about cloud seeding in Colorado. Takitimu Weather Modification Unique Indigenous weather modification service. TWM specializes in drought mitigation or water resource augmentation using Indigenous environmental knowledge and holistic methods. Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding-A Status Report 1989-1997 A status report 1989-1997 by William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Deptartment of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, Clorodo The Physical Basis for Seeding Clouds "Cloud seeding is the intentional treatment of individual clouds or storm systems for the purpose of achieving a beneficial effect without harming people or the environment. Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, the father of modern weather modification, conducted the first field experiments following his basic discoveries in 1946 at the General Electric Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. Since 1946, various inorganic and organic materials have been known to alter the physical processes which lead to the formation and growth of water droplets and ice crystals in clouds..." Oklahoma Weather Modification Demonstration Program "...To evaluate the potential effects and benefits of weather modification in Oklahoma. After three years of evaluation the state government decided to implement the progam as an official element of Oklahoma's water management strategy. A state law was passed in 1999 creating a new Weather Modification Division within the Oklahoma Water Resources Board." Oklahoma Water Resources Board Weather Modification Program "Rather than a fleeting "drought relief "effort, the Oklahoma program has been designed as a long-term water resource management and hazard mitigation tool. The effort has been modeled after operational programs in Kansas, North Dakota and Texas where rainfall increased 20 percent or more and losses to hail decreased as much as 45 percent. In Oklahoma, hail is responsible for many millions of dollars in crop and property damage each year..." North American Weather Consultants "Industry leaders in weather modification services, probable maximum precipitation studies and meteorological consulting." U.S. Water News Online "Current water and wastewater news for the professional" Ice Crystal Engineering Manufactures weather modification flares for hail suppression, rain enhancement, snow pack, and fog dispersion. Purple Haze "This website is in response to the continuing Chemtrails being reported throughout the United States. Here in Oklahoma we've been tracking this since May 1999. We endure daily spraying, with few exceptions. There is much speculation as to what these chemtrails are and who is spraying them. Our requests to government and elected officials for more information have gone unanswered." Back to WEATHER | Issues index | Sweet Liberty home page