Video: 100 Years of Headlines About Catastrophic Climate Change

Video: 100 Years of Headlines About Catastrophic Climate Change

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
January 9, 2009 - 14:20 ET

A YouTuber has created a fabulous video of 100 years of press headlines involving hysterical claims of catastrophic climate change (h/t Tom Nelson):

How absolutely delicious!

Readers are encouraged to review a previous NewsBusters report "150 Years of Global Warming and Cooling at the New York Times."

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Wow

January 9, 2009 - 14:59 ET by legacyrepublican

Cool, a YouTube video to heat up the debate. ;)

I could only Watch Half

January 9, 2009 - 15:00 ET by deerjerkydave

The editing job on this video was unbearable. The information is fantastic but the constant zooming of partial sentences is too slow to read properly.

my video 100 years of climate change headlines

January 17, 2009 - 12:32 ET by mickdaniels1

I have put up a new version of this video on you tube. The text is clearer with no zooming and it is also narrated

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpq-bHYJJ3c

Marxist culture change the REAL threat

January 9, 2009 - 15:07 ET by j17ghs

It is SO hard to believe that a political party that has the worst human rights record in U.S. history, that just stole $1 trillion from taxpayers before the election and that promote the Big Lie about global warming still got elected to the majority.

Clearly the greatest danger are the global goobers who have a 99% emotional attachment to these lying hatemongers. (And, yes, I mean the Marxist Party of America, formerly the Democrats, formerly the Ku Klux Klan, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Confederacy.)

The voting age should be returned to 21! That should help

January 9, 2009 - 20:56 ET by Cape Conservative

along with an 'age-adjustment' to make that 31 since our young people are so intent on remaining 'young' and irresponsible these days.

My guess is that if we restricted the voters to those gainfully employed or retired, that also might help.

It is absolutely mind-boggling to realize our votes were cancelled by either some young college kid who didn't even know what Obama stood for (interviews using McCain stances) or some person who just knew he was best. I know McCain wasn't the best the Republican Party could come up with, but this guy just pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. What a four years we have before us!

A PROUD member of the Oogedy Boogedy branch of the GOP!

I think this is needed but

January 9, 2009 - 15:42 ET by AeroSpear

I think this is needed but the video is horrible. I'm excited to see this type of thing be put together but this video bored me to death and I couldn't even watch the whole thing before having to stop it.

Please ... rework this to make it watchable.

Please ... rework this to make it watchable

January 9, 2009 - 20:52 ET by needle

... and readable.

On my 7 year old system about half of the words were barely readable, the rest were not readable.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

needle

January 10, 2009 - 04:19 ET by thebutlerdidit

I have one of those fancy portable puters, only 4 weeks old, and I couldn't read most of it. It is a good idea, but hard to read. I wish they had of went in order, put some more info in, like the old NB post Noel did, and made it easier to read. It is a great idea. Where's PT when you need him? I'll bet he could make a great video with all of his info gathered. A new project for him, perhaps?

100 years of Fire and Ice in PDF form

January 11, 2009 - 02:30 ET by PopularTech

Fire and Ice (Business & Media Institute)

It's not video but the info is the same.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

POP

January 11, 2009 - 04:40 ET by thebutlerdidit

Good stuff. I still say you should make a video or series of them on all the info you have.

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

I broke down and replaced

January 10, 2009 - 09:20 ET by danbo

I broke down and replaced my 8 year old creaking system Monday. I'm still moving in. It's easier to read if you maximize it to fill screen. (Lower right icon) But it still isn't real sharp.

Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

This reminded me a of a

January 10, 2009 - 11:53 ET by GameGrid

This reminded me a of a line said on an MST3k episode once:

"Remember this is a MOTION picture"

In other words, the video creator should have bothered to get actual pictures of the headlines or articles cited instead of just quoting them with computer text. Seeing the actual headlines/articles would be more effective. Still, there's some good information here, it just needs to be spread more effectively.

my video, "100 years of climate change headlines"

January 17, 2009 - 12:38 ET by mickdaniels1

I have put up on you tube a new version of this video with clearer text no zooming and also with narration

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpq-bHYJJ3c

my video "100 years of climate change headlines"

January 17, 2009 - 12:41 ET by mickdaniels1

I have put up on you tube a new version of this video with clearer text, no zooming and with narration

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpq-bHYJJ3c

my video "100 years of climate change headlines"

January 17, 2009 - 13:08 ET by mickdaniels1

I have put up a better version of this video on you tube

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpq-bHYJJ3c

One more to add to the mix

January 9, 2009 - 16:01 ET by dbo

1975 Newsweek article on global cooling. Complete with all the scare tactics we're so use to.

But they (meteorologists) are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agriculture productivity for the rest of the century.

http://i32.tinypic.c...

Global Cooling in the 1970s

January 11, 2009 - 02:37 ET by PopularTech

1970 - Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 - Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 - New Ice Age Coming - It's Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1972 - British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 - Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1973 - Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1974 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 - 2 Scientists Think 'Little' Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 - Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1975 - Climate Changes Called Ominous (PDF) (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 - Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 - B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 - The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 - The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 - Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 - In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1976 - Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1976 - The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Book, 1976)
1977 - The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 - The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age (Book, 1977)
1978 - Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)
1978 - The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of - TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, May 1978)
1979 - New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

Yikes

January 9, 2009 - 16:11 ET by considerthis

Great information, but I agree the delivery method almost hurts the information being delivered.

Much easier to digest and view if the lines would stop zooming and the mood music would be less moody. Nice clean text. Full sentances, no gratuitous PowerPoint zooming and less drama would help this message a great deal. Would show it for the plain simple truth it is.

What a great NB report, NS! The only thing missing is a final

January 9, 2009 - 21:09 ET by Cape Conservative

entry from Al Gore - 'the debate is over - the earth has a fever and that is it - I have spoken!'

If the New York Times has a 150-year RECORD of ups and downs and hot and cold - how on earth can any reasonably intelligent person believe 'the debate is over'????????????

This reasonably intelligent person believes Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank! I don't think he will ever accept an Obama appointment - he'd have some mighty big questions to answer and he doesn't want to do anything to interrupt his gravy train.

A PROUD member of the Oogedy Boogedy branch of the GOP!