The 1970s Ice Age Myth and Time Magazine Covers – by David Kirtley
[Via Greg Laden’s Blog]
This is a guest post by David Kirtley. David originally posted this as a Google Doc, and I’m reproducing his work here with his permission. Just the other day I was speaking to a climate change skeptic who made mention of an old Time or Newsweek (he was not sure) article that talked about fears of a coming ice age.
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Here is the image going around:
The cover on the left is faked. Here is the original:
Checking all the issues from the 70s reveals no cover talking about a coming Ice Age. There were some articles inside thaty discussed the possibility of an Ice Age along with articels discussing possible warming. That was the state of knowledge then,
We are about 40 years on now. The science is no longer divided. We are not entering an Ice Age and the world is warming.
The only ‘facts’ that denialists have are fake magazine covers.
October 18, 2013 at 8:10 am
I guess you missed these real covers:
October 18, 2013 at 9:19 am
The original article I linked to mentioned both of those covers.
Articles in Time published during the winter discussing cold weather in the US have little relevance to the conversation about climate change.
October 18, 2013 at 9:26 am
Gotcha, context is everything with those covers. Although the Ice Age alarmists might not have grabbed any covers, they certainly grabbed an impressive amount of headlines. Two more links from that same article:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/the-1970s-ice-age-scare/