Opinion
An Ice Age is coming.
Or at the least that’s what consultants thought in 1978. No, actually – most of the main voices of the day predicted world cooling, not warming.
They even introduced out the beloved Star Trek character Spock to warn us all.
That is one thing actor and conservative James Woods had enjoyable with on X just lately.
It’s been 45 years since this Spock video. Does that depend as a lifetime?
Dr. Roy Cardato of the John Locke Basis commented on this now amusing video in 2013:
The actually unhappy a part of all that is that Leonard Nimoy was proper. In 1978 that is what “climate experts” believed. Like in the present day, they have been blaming the climate on people and their polluting life. And, like in the present day, a part of the issue, together with particulate matter, was the evil carbon dioxide. As one authorities scientist concludes based on this 1970 article within the St. Petersburg Instances, “doubling CO2 in the atmosphere…would raise surface temperatures by 3.6 Fahrenheit and [here’s the kicker] cool the lower stratosphere some 27 degrees.” Holy iceberg, Batman!!!
Comic Jim Bruer mocks the Leonard Nimoy/Spock ‘Coming Ice Age’ video in his most up-to-date comedy particular and in addition consultants usually – for many years – giving ominous forewarnings about local weather disasters.
This tweet options an Related Press story from 1989 says nations have been at risk of turning into extinct if motion wasn’t taken on world warming by the yr 2000.
These “experts?”
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