Thursday, March 21, 2013

Did Scholastics Weekly Reader Scare You in The 1970s? Want To Know What They're Doing Today?

A global cooling scare of  1970s? Apparently so. Which is it? Ice Age or Dustbowl?



I was probably in first grade the first time Scholastic’s Weekly Reader scared me.  I had a Christian conservative teacher who made us sing “My Country Tis of Thee,” every morning and say the Pledge of Allegiance.  Her approach was no nonsense, but Weekly Reader came at least twice every month.  Between its grim predictions about the planet and push to sell books, I wasn’t sure we would be here until the next edition.   I was in first grade and was afraid of the population explosion, pollution, scarcity of resources and especially global cooling.   The adults were being scared too.  In fact Time Magazine seemed to be obsessed with global cooling. Read it all at I'm a Man, I'm 41 - excellent with resources to combat the arguments your hippy Uncle Joey throws around .
See a video with the above article from about 1977 narrated by Leonard Nimoy. The winter was so bad, a lady from Buffalo, NY thought they might need to move. Buffalo is annually in the top 10 cities with a population over 50,000 receiving the most snowfall in the U.S.  - approximately 93 inches annually. Can you guess when we were supposed to see the next great Ice Age?

But today, while the Polar Bear population is indisputably on the increase, don't ya know that if you prick a warmist, you'll always find a fascist?
We need to design a new kind of democracy where many government decisions are made cooperatively, with multi-party representation and the input of experts. Such think tanks must have strategies in place to promote critical self-analysis and to “frame” policy to reflect the long-term reality. The cost of climate change mitigation can then be shown to be minute compared to the cost of inaction.
William Teach has the real response based on reality to the "new kind of democracy." Read it here.



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