As I look through newspaper and magazine archives, I am becoming very concerned that the world is coming to an end very soon.  It looks like the climate of the planet is going to kill us all. 

The media is quite certain that the end is near, and I know they would not insult my intelligence with unfounded hype.  I am having trouble discerning how that end will come.  Please look at the following quotes (in chronological order) and help me determine the expected course of the planet's climate.




“Geologists Think the World May be Frozen Up Again.”
February 24, 1895 New York Times.

"Prominent Professor Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age.”
October 7, 1912  New York Times

“Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.”
October 7, 1912 Los Angeles Times

“Ice Age Coming Here.”
August 10, 1923 Washington Post

“Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada.”
August 9, 1923 Chicago Tribune






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

“[Those] who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weathermen have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer.”
January 2, 1939 Time Magazine

"Receding permafrost in Russia proof that the planet is warming"
1951 Time Magazine

"Melting Glaciers the trump card of Global Warming"
1952 New York Times






“There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth.”
1974 Newsweek magazine

“As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval.”
1974 Time Magazine

“Climate Changes Endanger World’s Food Output.”
1974 New York Times

“The facts of the present climate change (Global Cooling) are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade.”
“Mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence”
December 29, 1974 New York Times

“A major cooling widely considered to be inevitable.”
1975 New York Times


Evidently we are all going to die any minute now.  Please help me figure out if I need to stock up on sunscreen or snow boots.  I want to delay the inevitable as long as possible.


Adapted from Hot and Cold Media Spin Cycle : A Challenge to Journalists Who Cover Global Warming
by Senator James Inhofe