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On Sept. 11, 1972, Cronkite cited scientists' predictions that there was a "new ice age" coming. He called that prediction from British scientist Hubert Lamb "a bit of bad news." "But then there is some good news," Cronkite continued. "That while the weather may be just a little colder in the immediate years to come, the full extent of the new ice age won't be reached for 10,000 years. And if you can stand any more good news, even then it won't be as bad as the last ice age 60,000 years ago. Then New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, were under 5,000 feet of ice. Presumably no traffic moved and school was let out for the day. And that's the way it is, Monday September 11, 1972."
The late Cronkite is considered a "legendary journalist" and a pioneer in the field, which is why Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, said this footage was so important. Morano is a former staff member of U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee and producer of upcoming global warming documentary 'Climate Hustle' set for release later in 2015. "Global warming activists have claimed for years that the 1970s global cooling scare never existed. They have tried to erase the inconvenient history which ironically blamed extreme weather like tornadoes, droughts, record cold and blizzards on global cooling," said Morano. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2015/03/05/and-thats-way-it-was-1972-cronkite-warned-new-ice-age#sthash.w5TUWaFq.9CWCqM71.dpuf

The most trusted Journalist Ever!!

Everyone but the libs knows that our planet has cycles of warming and cooling. And it has a lot more to do with our sun, than anything we do or don't do.

Quote from: daidalos on March 05, 2015, 10:51:08 AM
Everyone but the libs knows that our planet has cycles of warming and cooling. And it has a lot more to do with our sun, than anything we do or don't do.

No It's Man!!

Here's a video clip.

And That's the Way It Was In 1972 Cronkite Warned of 'New Ice Age' 14255594643 mp4 mp4

It's worth noting that Hubert Lamb, the scientist mentioned by Cronkite in this clip, was a British climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 1972. Yep, that's the same outfit that became the center of the so-called "Climategate" email scandal, involving leaked emails that pointed to collusion and the alteration and suppression of climate data in order to favor global warming. Climatologists at East Anglia, along with their correspondents, were exposed discussing methods of altering or suppressing data to support the then-popular 'hockey stick' graph published by Michael Mann and others in 1999. The hockey stick graph and its implications are widely discounted today, as newer data show a departure of actual conditions from the widest spread of model-predicted temperatures.

In other words, they don't know what the hell they're talking about. 

I well remember this debate and the fears of global cooling, caused, incidentally, by precisely the same things as are claimed to cause global warming, or global weirding, or just the generic catch-all climate change. Also, the solutions proposed by climatologists and politicians back then were precisely the same solutions proposed today to fix global warming. Go figure!

Cronkite was fortunate he was a news leader when he was. There was no alternative to those days with three network newscasts at 6:30 Eastern. Had there been the internet and alternative truth purveyors he would have been exposed.

Actually, adding to my previous post, the global cooling/next Ice Age scare lasted well after Cronkite's broadcast. Most of the US suffered a brutally cold winter in 1976-77, which was followed by a winter in 1977-78 that featured record snowfalls over much of the country. A congenital idiot Leftist Democrat named Dennis Kucinich recently appeared on FoxNews and attempted to blame all that 77-78 snow on the famous "lake effect." (Lake Erie, that is, the same one that traditionally powers Buffalo's prodigious snows, but also Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario.) He was the mayor of Cleveland back then, and I guess he didn't get out much. I was living in northern Kentucky then, a couple hundred miles away, and certainly not downwind from any of the lakes, and we had FEET of snow on the ground, decidedly NOT lake effect snow.