" (climate change is) the greatest existential threat of our time," according to President Biden, is global warming.
"Unchecked," he said, "it is going to actually bake this planet."
... On October 7, 1912 ... the Los Angeles Times alerted readers, "Fifth Ice Age Is on the Way: Human Race Will Have to Fight for Existence in Cold."
By August 9, 1923, ... the Chicago Tribune declared on its front page, "Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada."
... In 1973, Science Digest concluded, "at this point we do not have the comfortable distance of tens of thousands of years to prepare for the next Ice Age," and that "Once the freeze starts, it will be too late."
... The March 1, 1975 cover of the respected Science News magazine depicted the city of New York being swallowed by an approaching glacier and announced, "The Ice Age Cometh."
... The New York Times ... : "Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable."
The prestigious National Academy of Sciences ... In 1975, it issued a warning that there was a “finite possibility that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the Earth within the next few years.”
... the CO2 theory gained worldwide attention in 1988 through dramatic theatrical staging of then-Senator Al Gore’s Committee on Science, Technology and Space.
... in an interview with PBS's "Frontline" by the event’s co-planner, Sen. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo., "We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer…so we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on the record in Washington, or close to it . . . we went in the night before and opened all the windows so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room."
... Speaking in 2010, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) official Ottmar Edenhofer advised that: " . . . one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth . . . "
... Stephen Schneider who had served as a lead author for important parts of three sequential alarmist IPCC global warming reports ... explained that "to get broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination," entails "getting loads of media coverage."
To accomplish this, Schneider said, "we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of the doubts we might have.
Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
. . . there should never be a need for legitimate scientists to strike a balance between effectiveness and honesty.
That’s not how the scientific method works.
Plugging the Green New Deal she co-sponsored, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had claimed ... 'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change' …
AOC’s former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti told Washington governor Jay Inslee’s climate director about a very different agenda: "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? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."
... climate is always changing, sometimes abruptly, in long and short cycles, and for lots of complex entirely natural reasons.
... present global temperatures are comfortably similar to those that existed two thousand years ago during the Roman Warm Period, a thousand years ago during the Medieval Warm Period, and far more recently during the 1930s . . . all when CO2 levels were lower.
I might ... mention ... chilling news that the Thames River froze over last weekend for the first time in 60 years."