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Article: COLUMN: From global cooling to global warming
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- April 6, 2004
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Anthony McKee
University Wire
04-06-2004
(East Carolinian) (U-WIRE) GREENVILLE, N.C. -- In 1975, certain members of the scientific, environmental, and political communities were prophesying doom and gloom on a global scale. Global cooling was coming. Drastic measures, including melting the polar ice caps, were proposed and considered. Mankind was going to perish. We had to act now.
These comments are paraphrased from a 1975 Newsweek magazine article on the imminent threat to the world's food supply caused by the onset of global cooling. This was not an isolated article. There were numerous news stories and scientific articles about this very subject from the early '70s on. People were ...