Were the 1970s-Era Ice Age Predictions Right After All?
Russian, Danish and Canadian climatologists make an interesting case.
by Rod D. Martin
February 25, 2008
Maybe.
Russian, Danish and Canadian climatologists have long been saying that "global warming" existed but wasn't due to man: in their view, it was the consequence of an active sunspot cycle, and it was crazy to believe that man's comparatively miniscule actions had anything to do with it. (Note that the fact that I can write this paragraph by itself disproves the official Gore-approved dogma that "the scientific community is unanimous" in its support of his global warming claims.)
Well, it looks like the skeptics could be right about that sunspot cycle thing. The sun just entered its sleepiest phase in a century and half, and guess what? Snow cover over North America, China and Siberia are at record highs, the Arctic ice (we were told on countless magazine covers this fall that it would all melt soon, possibly in just five years) is now at record extent and thickness, and all of this fol…