D2 Cat

in the last 30 years or so.

[From Paul R. Ehrlich, Ecological economics and the carrying capacity of Earth, p. 41 in Jansson et al. 1994, _Investing in Natural Capital_, Island Press.]

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
- Nigel Calder, International Wildlife, June 1975

There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramaticlly and that these changes may portrend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumalate so massively that meterologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
- Newsweek, April 28, 1975

Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.
- Betty Friedan, "The coming Ice Age", Harper's Magazine, Sept, 1958

Bark

Thanks! Im gonna start smoking again.

chainzaw

We've had the ice age scare. We're getting the global warming scare. What's the next big hype/scare going to be? Cellular signals interfere with evaporation and we're looming over a global drought?

Alwaysworking

lets see if we can't warm this globe up.

Timmay2

These are always funny topics. Theres tons of history of the globe destorying itself and rebuilding itself and warming and freezing ALL ON ITS OWN.

We may come and go, who cares what the globe does, it will do it regardless of us tiny pipsqueeks on the surface.

Fronty Owner

Its a good thing that global warming stopped that whole ice age... that could have gotten rough...