New York Times 1976: Climatologists Predicted Global Cooling – Warned of ‘Highly Erratic Weather For Decades to Come” – Skeptics Said It Was ‘Nonsense’ – Noted Models Can’t predict: ‘Some of their stuff is right out of fantasy land’
New York Times - July 12, 1976 - By James P. Sterba: 'They (Climatologists) believe that the earth's climate has moved into a cooling cycle, which means highly erratic weather for decades to come. And that, they say, has profound implications for -- most of them bad -- for world food production, economic stability and social order. With the world's population now so high, the results of even minor year-to-year shifts in climate could be catastrophic, they say.
'Skeptical Scientists: Some scientists think all of that is nonsense, mainly because climatologists can offer no scientific proof to back up their theories. If meteorologists, using sophisticated computers, can forecast weather only a day or two in advance, they ask, how can climatologists project climate years ahead? "It's interesting," said one skeptical scientist. "But some of their stuff is right out of fantasy land."
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New York Times 1977: ‘Meteorologists, or short-term weather forecasters, dispute the scientific credentials of climatologists, saying they are working in a new area without much base data and with no ‘proof’ to back up their assertions.’ (Problems From Climate Changes Foreseen in a 1974 C.I.A Report – View Article – NYTimes.com)
