In 1895,
Grover Cleveland
was president.
The New York Times announced
the coming of a new ice age.
Early concerns over a new ice age
"lasted well into the late 1920s,"
report R. Warren Anderson and
Dan Gainor in "Fire and Ice,"
an in-depth historical
retrospective of
media obsession
with climate change.
Then Earth’s surface
warmed less than
half a degree.
The Times cautioned
“the earth is steadily
growing warmer.”
By 1954, Fortune magazine
was warming to another
cooling trend and ran
an article titled:
“Climate – the Heat May Be Off.”
The New York Times ran
warming stories
into the late 1950s,
but by 1975,
the paper reported:
“A Major Cooling Widely
Considered to Be Inevitable.”
Six years later,
on Aug. 22, 1981,
the Times quoted seven
government atmospheric
scientists who predicted
global warming of an
“almost unprecedented
magnitude.”
The print
news media
have warned of
four separate
climate changes
in slightly more
than 100 years:
(1) global cooling,
(2) global warming,
(3) global cooling, and,
(3) global warming
How is it that only people
on the left can allegedly
understand long-term
climate prediction?
Ocasio-Cortez' own
former chief of staff,
was Saikat Chakrabarti.
In a story reported
by the Washington Post,
Chakrabarti admitted:
"The interesting thing
about the Green New Deal
is it wasn't originally
a climate thing at all.
Do you guys think of it
as a climate thing?"
asked Chakrabarti.
Because we really
think of it as a
how-do-you-change
-the-entire-economy thing."