A History of Climate Scares at the New York Times: 1978, “No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend; ” 1988, “Global Warming has Begun”

Cap Allon

[This article was originally posted over at electroverse.net on May 12, 2021]

NASA’s James Hansen started the global warming scare during the very hot summer of 1988.

The New York Times reported the following on June 24, 1988:

Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ”greenhouse effect.”

But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere.


But what credibility can the New York Times have left?

For decades prior, the publication was scaremongering about the opposite climatic catastrophe: Global Cooling.

Below is an article from 1961, where the NYT is bracing citizens of the U.S. for a colder world:


The global scientific consensus back in 1961 was that the world “is getting colder”.

And by the following decade, the rhetoric had been ramped-up.

At the start of the 1970s, the NYT ran with this front page story:


Scientists at the time were worried about expanding polar ice.

So much so in fact, that the article proposes drastic measures to combat the cooling polar regions — one being to spread coal dust over the Arctic in order to melt the ice.

By the end of the 70s, rather than acknowledging they had perhaps gone a tad overboard, the publication doubled-down on its catastrophic cooling narrative:


The cooling trend between the 1960s and late 1970s was indeed very real–despite what today’s MSM is currently trying to sell you (their own publications were reporting on it for crikey-sake!).

The thermometer data of the time (shown below) reveals that between 1885-1940 the Northern Hemisphere experienced stark warming; and then from 1941-1970 (in actual fact, to 1980) suffered substantial cooling.


These temperature changes were obviously natural, driven by forcings such as solar activity and ocean currents.

There can be absolutely no attribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, which we’re reliably told have been steadily rising since the late 1800s.

Clear for all to see, the above chart shows a strong anti-correlation from 1941-1970 when CO2 levels were rising exponentially yet average temperatures were falling off a cliff.

The likes of NOAA and NASA have since erased these natural waxings and wanings from the temperature records.

This is exposed here:

https://electroverse.net/nasas-smoking-gun-of-climate-fraud/


Natural climate variations have been used to control populations and sell newspapers for a century+. Let us hope that this repeated ‘crying wolf’ doesn’t come back to bite us when a genuine climatic threat arises.

NASA’s James Hansen is regarded as ‘the father’ of the modern global warming scare–that is, the 1980-to-present warming, not the 1885-1940 warming. However, today’s climatic scare, unlike the ones preceding it, has a far more sinister twist.

Today, rising carbon dioxide levels –and so every human on the planet– is being blamed for the destruction of planet Earth. This is brilliant in its maleficence, but will also be judged by history as the greatest fraud ever perpetuated on our species.

When devising his now infamous temperature forecast from 1988, Hansen came-up with three CO2 emissions scenarios.

Scenario A was based on increasing CO2 emission growth rates, or “Business As Usual.”

Scenario B was based on a reduction (moderate) of CO2 emission growth rates.

And Scenario C was based on CO2 emissions being reduced (capped) to year 2000 levels.



You can see for yourself which scenario Hansen nailed.

Temps have almost perfectly tracked Scenario C: “GHG/CO2 reduced to year 2000 levels.”

Think of all those costly carbon initiatives that have been rolled-out around the world since 1988, when we could have done nothing and achieved the same results.

Here’s Hansen’s original graph overlaid with the satellite lower troposphere reading in red (Tony Heller):


Hansen testified to congress indicating that we would be 1.5C above baseline by early 2020.

But real-world satellite observations had us at around 0.5C above baseline in early 2020.

And since then, the average global temperature has actually plummeted to -0.05C BELOW baseline:

[Dr Roy Spencer]


Hansen was flat out wrong.

What an expensive and wholly-exhausting waste of time “global warming” turned out to be.

Climate is cyclic, never linear — the next epoch due is one of COOLING, and no amount of cow farts will avert it.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).

Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

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