Flashback 1958: Arctic Ice Sheet Will Envelope NYC, Chicago
Much like today, scientists in the 1950s were warning that warming temperatures will melt the polar ice cap, raise sea levels and flood major coastal cities. The difference is that scientists in the 1950s were warning this will lead to another ice age.
In 1958, Harper’s magazine ran a lengthy story on “The Coming Ice Age” that featured research by geophysicist Maurice Ewing and geologist-meteorologist William Donn who argued the world was “heading into another Ice Age.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/20/flashback-1958-arctic-ice-sheet-will-envelope-nyc-chicago/
