Naomi Oreskes of Harvard believes that there is a giant big tobacco/big oil conspiracy of paid skeptics trying to destroy the planet. She has a loyal following in the academic community and the press, who are somehow too lame to actually contact skeptics like myself and find out that she is a wildly paranoid loon.
Other conspiracy nutcases include people who believe the moon landing was faked, based on evidence like this.
They argue that the shadows must have been from a local light source, because the guy closer to the light has a longer shadow. These geniuses are too stupid to understand that a local light source would have the exact opposite effect – the further person would have the longer shadow.
The astronaut on the right in the NASA photograph has a longer shadow because he is standing near the top of the hill, and the one on the left is standing near the bottom of the hill.
Other idiots believe that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by an implosion generated by explosives near the ground floor – even though they can see that the towers collapsed from the top down.
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And then there are whack jobs Kook and Nuttercelli who believe that the 1970’s global cooling scare never happened. Even though every single science organization and major news organization signed off on it.
National Academy Of Sciences Science News
The Milwaukee Sentinel – Google News Archive Search
Every major climate organization endorsed the ice age scare, including NCAR, CRU, NAS, NASA – as did the CIA.
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate
The Windsor Star – Google News Archive Search
Climate Changes Endanger World’s Food Output NYTimes.com
http://news.google.com/newspapers/
Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search
16 May 1974 – LIFE STYLE TAKING POINT Disappearance revives lo…
The Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search
Problems From Climate Changes Foreseen in a 1974 C.I.A Report – View Article – NYTimes.com
The Genesis Strategy – A chilling prospect – View Article – NYTimes.com
…That’s the News. And Now for San Juan’s Weather… – View Article – NYTimes.com
documents.theblackvault.com/documents/environment/potentialtrends.pdf
Middlesboro Daily News – Google News Archive Search
The Milwaukee Journal – Google News Archive Search
Science – Worrying About a New Ice Age – View Article – NYTimes.com
The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search
In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent, and for the first time in this century. ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting ice.
PQ Archiver – ChicagoTribune.com
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910467,00.html
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ny-times-1975-01-19.pdf
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ny-times-1975-05-21.pdf
Lawrence Journal-World – Google News Archive Search
http://www.amazon.com/Cooling-Has-Next-Already-Begun/dp/013172312X
Monday, Jan. 31, 1977
WEATHER: The Big Freeze
Why had the rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered—could it be?—yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow.From the Dakotas and Minnesota, across the icy Great Lakes of the Middle West and down…
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,918620,00.html
http://news.google.com/newspapers
Climate Change and its Effect on World Food
by Walter Orr Roberts Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, andNational Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a greatly increased area of the snow and ice cover of the north polar cap as compared to all previous years of space age observations. Some scientists believe that this may have presaged the onset of the dramatic climate anomalies of 1972 that brought far-reaching adversities to the world’s peoples. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favorable agricultural crop years that lie ahead for most world societies. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that world populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favorable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new “little ice age”
There are strong signs that these recent climate disasters were not random deviations from the usual weather, but instead signals of the emergence of a new normal for world climates.
If we are, indeed, experiencing a worsening of world climates it is, perhaps, equal in severity to any within the last millenium. The arguments for this view were developed by several of the climatologists who attended an international workshop on climate and its effects on human life convened in May 1974 in Bonn, Germany.
At this meeting Profs. H. Flohn of Germany, H.H. Lamb of the United Kingdom and Reid Bryson of the United States developed a highly persuasive demonstration that there has been a steady cooling of northern hemisphere temperatures during the last 30 years, with the strongest cooling at the higher latitudes.
www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull165/16505796265.pdf
The Canberra Times Thursday 16 May 1974
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). — Weather satellites sweeping across the northern hemisphere have come up with a surprise: the permanent snow and ice cap has increased sharply, Associated Press reported. The finding is cited as one more indication of what some climatologists believe to be a basic change in the world’s climate, a cooling
16 May 1974 – LIFE STYLE TAKING POINT Disappearance revives lo…
Mountain Mail – Google News Archive Search
22 Nov 1974 – SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY New ice age ‘could be in our…
