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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The Times Warms to Cooling

     The New York Times had been cautioning its readers about global warming during the 1950s, but it too came around to the new threat by Jan. 19, 1975.

     Referring to the 1970s as being part of a 10,000-year period of warmth in between ice ages, the paper wrote, “There seems to be little doubt that the present period of unusual warmth will eventually give way to a time of colder climate.”

     By Dec. 30, 2005, the Times had once again changed gears and reported, “Climatologists said the ice cores left no doubt that the burning of fossil fuels is altering the atmosphere in a substantial and unprecedented way.”