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Interesting to note that in the 1970's the talk of another ice age was really more of a conversation about a rapidly changing planet. The real anxiety was over
by at-fates-hands 6y ago
Interesting to note that in the 1970's the talk of another ice age was really more of a conversation about a rapidly changing planet. The real anxiety was over pollution and its effect on the climate - not that the planet was cooling naturally or going through a cooling phase:
1974 TIME "Another Ice Age?"
https://www.sott.net/article/271592-Time-magazine-1974-Another-Ice-Age https://www.sott.net/article/271592-Time-magazine-1974-Anoth...
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval.
They thought it was due to pollution (man made) even back then:
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Interesting to note they speculate the trend might be temporary - which makes sense because as we've reduced pollution by leaps and bounds since then, you've started to see more of a warming trend:
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate.
This article was never an indictment on the scientists believing we were heading for another ice age. Quite the opposite. They started seeing rapid changes in the planet's climate and wanted to try and explain what the consequences were. They even say they need more data and more research to figure out exactly what's going on.