The History of Climate Change

Here’s an interesting article that shows journalists have been getting hysterical over climate change for a 100 years now. Like I said, it’s a cycle of nature. But cynical politicians and crackpots have decided to exploit it for their own ends.

Excerpt:

It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of “geologists.” Only the president at the time wasn’t Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.   
    The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis. Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be “wiped out” or lower crop yields would mean “billions will die.”

    Just as the weather has changed over time, so has the reporting – blowing hot or cold with short-term changes in temperature.

Now politicians have an all pervasive media in which to ram down their agendas. It’s really dangerous to believe any hype of this kind. After all, the weather is always changing. That’s a given. Whenever any kind of disaster happens, its easy to blame it on something. Once upon a time it was blamed on angry gods. Now the superstition is greenhouse gases.

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