‘Boats could be launched from the bottom of the steps of the Capitol’ in DC – Flashback 1979: Steven Schneider ‘was peddling the identical West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse theory which is being recycled’ currently
New York Times - January 8, 1979: 'If the West Antarctic Ice sheet slips into the sea, as some glaciologists believe is possible, boats could be launched from the bottom of the steps of the Capitol in Washington and a third of Florida would be under water, a climate specialist said today. He was Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, acting leader of the of the Climate Sensitivity Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Dr. Schneider spoke on climate change as a potential hazard at a session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is conducting its annual meeting here. Other participants in the discussion of such an Antarctic "surge" suggested, however, that while the slippage could occur within a century, it probably would take longer and there was no evidence that the slippage was imminent."
