Thursday, January 17, 2008

Might Be Right Afterall

“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.” — Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University in Time Magazine’s June 24th, 1975 article Another Ice Age?

The next time you hear about worldwide crop failure, rising sea levels, species extinction, or other climate grief you might want to remember that it's all been predicted before -- and never happened as predicted. Just being an expert, or even having a consensus of experts, doesn’t necessarily mean that a claim is true.

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