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Fire and Ice

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

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Newspapers

Associated Press Worldstream 2006 January 29, 2006 Bill Clinton: Climate change is the world's biggest worry

Atlanta Constitution July 21, 1923 Radio Ship May find Large Coal Fields in Arctic

Boston Daily Globe May 28, 1923 Research Aim Of Arctic Trip

Canadian Press Newswire April 4, 2004 Polar Bears Stalk Streets Of Arctic Hamlets; Hunters Seek Higher Kill Quota

Chicago Daily Tribune November 6, 1939 Experts Puzzle Over 20 Year Mercury Rise

Chicago Tribune August 16, 1998 Editorial Page

Christian Science Monitor July 3, 1923 Captain MacMillan Ready to Cast Off For Arctic Cruise

Christian Science Monitor August 27, 1974 Major Crop Failures Foreseen

Chicago Daily Tribune August 9, 1923 Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada

Columbus Dispatch December 16, 2004 Warming May Send Songbirds North; As Climate Changes, Animals Are Forced To Move, Report Says

Edmonton Journal December 29, 2004 Polar Bears Defy Extinction Warnings: Their Numbers are Growing In Nunavut, A Risk To Residents and a Boon to Hunters

Evening News (Edinburgh) December 2, 2002 Wonder Machine to Take World by Storm

The Independent January 29, 1998 Weather: Spotting a Change in Climate

The Independent September 15, 2004 The Global Warming Crisis: These Small Steps on Climate Change Fall Short of the Drastic Solutions We Need

Los Angeles Times May 23, 1902 Disappearing Glaciers

Los Angeles Times October 7, 1932 Fifth Ice Age Is On The Way

Los Angeles Times June 28, 1923 Ice-Age Theory will be Sifted

Los Angeles Times April 6, 1924 New Ice-Age is Forecast

Los Angeles Times March 11, 1929 Is Another Ice Age Coming?

Los Angeles Times December 16, 2005 2005 Vying With '98 as Record Hot Year

Los Angeles Times January 9, 2006 Polar Bears Face New Toxic Threat: Flame Retardants

New York Times February 24, 1867 The Glacial Period

New York Times February 24, 1895 Prospects of Another Glacial Period

New York Times October 7, 1912 Sees Glacial Era Coming

New York Times September 20, 1922 Penguin Startles France

New York Times June 10, 1923 Menace of a New Ice Age to be Tested by Scientists

New York Times June 24, 1923 MacMillan Sails on Trip to Arctic

New York Times July 4, 1923 MacMillan Sails North

New York Times September 28, 1924 MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age

The New York Times May 15, 1932 Next Great Deluge Forecast by Science

New York Times March 27, 1933 America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise

New York Times August 10, 1952 Our Changing Climate

New York Times July 12, 1953 The Weather is Really Changing

New York Times February 15, 1959 A Warmer Earth Evident at Poles

New York Times February 20, 1969 Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea

New York Times January 27, 1972 Climate Experts Assay Ice Age Clues

New York Times August 8, 1974 Climate Changes Endanger World’s Food Output

New York Times December 29, 1974 Forecast for Forecasting: Cloudy

New York Times January 19, 1975 Climate Changes Called Ominous

New York Times May 21, 1975 Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead.

New York Times August 22, 1981 News Summary

New York Times August 13, 1991 Ranges Of Animals and Plants Head North

New York Times April 16, 1993 TV Weekend; World Ends Not With a Bang, but a Heat Wave

New York Times December 8, 2002 Arctic Ice Is Melting at Record Level, Scientists Say

New York Times January 2, 2005 The Future of Calamity

New York Times May 20, 2005 Warming Is Blamed for Antarctica's Weight Gain

New York Times September 14, 2005 Using Central Park to Study Global Warming and Flooding

New York Times September 27, 2005 ‘Fire Bell’ In the Night

New York Times October 25, 2005 No Escape: Thaw Gains Momentum

New York Times December 27, 2005 Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming

New York Times December 30, 2005 While You Were Sleeping

The Scotsman January 27, 2006 Nightmare Vision of a World 200 Years On

Telegraph February 2, 2006 We've Lost Our Fear of Hellfire, But Put Climate Change in its Place

Washington Post August 10, 1923 Volcanoes in Australia; Ice Age Coming Here

Washington Post October 28, 1928 An Ice – Free World, What Then?

Washington Post August 2, 1930 Hot Weather

Washington Post May 3, 1932 Second World Flood Seen, if Earth’s Heat Increases

Washington Post January 11, 1970 Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age

Washington Post January 18, 2006 Is It Warm in Here?; We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History

Washington Post March 8, 2006 The Planet Can’t Wait

 

Magazines

Atlantic December 1932 This Cold, Cold World

Discover Oct. 1989

Fortune August 1954 Climate – the Heat May Be Off

Fortune February 1974 Ominous Changes in the World’s Weather

Fortune 2004 February 9, 2004 The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare; The Climate Could Change Radically, and Fast. That Would Be The Mother Of All National Security Issues

International Wildlife July-August 1975 In the Grip of a New Ice Age?

National Geographic November 1976 What’s Happening to Our Climate?

Newsweek April 28, 1975 The Cooling World

Newsweek May 20, 1991 On the Wings of Icarus

Newsweek (Atlantic Edition) June 30, 2003 Sky High

Newsweek August 8, 2005 A European Sahara?

Science News Nov 15, 1969 Earth’s Cooling Climate

Science News March 1, 1975 Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities

Science News January 22, 2000 As Globe Warms, Atmosphere Keeps Its Cool

Time September 10, 1923 MacMillan Heard From

Time January 2, 1939 Warmer World

Time October 29, 1951 Retreat of the Cold

Time June 24, 1974 Another Ice Age?

Time November 11, 1974 Weather Change: Poorer Harvets

Time November 13, 2000 Stormy Weather; Are Europe's Floods, Gales and Droughts Here to Stay? Yes, Say the Experts--and it Could Get Worse

Time 2001 April 9, 2001 Life In The Greenhouse

U.S. News & World Report January 8, 1954 Are Winters Getting Warmer?

U.S. News & World Report May 31, 1976 Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend

U.S. News & World Report 1993 February 8, 1993 Feeding a World of 10 Billion

U.S. News & World Report 1998 May 4, 1998 Just How Hot is it Going to Get?

U.S. News & World Report February 11, 2005 Turning Up the Heat; New studies Show that the Earth is Warming up Faster than we Thought. What Can be Done?

 

Scientific Journals

J. B. Kincer September 1933 Monthly Weather Review

G. S. Callendar 1938 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Jonathan A. Patz et al. 17 November 2005 Nature 438, 310-317

 

Books

Ponte, Lowell 1976 The Cooling

Baxter, William J. 1953 Today’s Revolution in Weather!

Gore, Al 1992 Earth in the Balance

Schneider, Stephen 1976 The Genesis Strategy

 

Internet

Failing ocean current raises fears of mini ice age

For global cooling, just spray

What’s Going On With the Arctic? (Heartland)

The Public and Climate Change (American Institute of Physics)

Global Warming?

Prophets of Doom

What To Do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap

Malthusian Warming

Settling Global Warming Science

20th Century Climate Not So Hot