Louis Gossett Jr
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We have gone from global cooling in the 1970s to global warming in the 2000s to now the buzzword to cover it all: climate change.
Get a bad hurricane this fall? Climate change (don’t guess Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 in 1969, had a reason). Get 14 inches of snow here in January? That darned climate change caused it (I forget what caused the 1987 winter nor’easter).
I say this because Time Magazine had three covers in the 1970s that talked about the “Big Freeze.” One in 1973, the next in 1977 and the final cover in 1979, which said “The Cooling of America.”
Things suddenly changed in the 2000 — the political climate, I mean. The same Time Magazine had switched to global warming with a 2001 cover. Again in 2006 a cover was headlined “Special Report: Global Warming.” Then, finally in 2008, there was one about “How to Win the War on Global Warming.”
TV and print media have a special knack for blaming climate change for everything. New fungus in Seattle? Climate change. It’s 90 degrees in August? Climate change.
OK, we get it. When it gets to 25 degrees in January and we get some snow, our climate will have changed — to winter.
Get a bad hurricane this fall? Climate change (don’t guess Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 in 1969, had a reason). Get 14 inches of snow here in January? That darned climate change caused it (I forget what caused the 1987 winter nor’easter).
I say this because Time Magazine had three covers in the 1970s that talked about the “Big Freeze.” One in 1973, the next in 1977 and the final cover in 1979, which said “The Cooling of America.”
Things suddenly changed in the 2000 — the political climate, I mean. The same Time Magazine had switched to global warming with a 2001 cover. Again in 2006 a cover was headlined “Special Report: Global Warming.” Then, finally in 2008, there was one about “How to Win the War on Global Warming.”
TV and print media have a special knack for blaming climate change for everything. New fungus in Seattle? Climate change. It’s 90 degrees in August? Climate change.
OK, we get it. When it gets to 25 degrees in January and we get some snow, our climate will have changed — to winter.