Does anyone remember this? (Global Warming Warning)?

Question

Yaddi, Yadda, Yaddi - beside the Great Freeze that we were warned about and how we should give money to these groups to stop the freeze.** Remember this one - groups were screaming how we were destroying the coral eco-system and that we had to fix it. So, again give us money and we will fix it. Of course in reality lets make up stuff and scream bloody murder just to fulfill are higher than mighty ECO-SELFS and pretend to care about the ECO-SYSTEM - should be what it is called. Check out this article - (which you notice doesn't get the super duper coverage as you get with todays GREEN ECO-FREAK SHOW... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_on_re_us/tire_reef_blunder

Oh, by the way, I am for taking care of the planet...I just don't buy into every ECO-FREAK out there.

** The Great Freeze - hey they didn't really get much momentum with that one - no money was coming in because no one believed them - except maybe the front cover of Time or Life or Science Digest - I forget what mag it was, maybe it was all??? - it didn't go to far, so, they switched sides and came up with GLOBAL WARMING . Which again, I am for taking care of the planet - just not taking care of the lie driven self-rightous holy Eco-Freaks

Yes, I inject personal expressions, but the Global Freezing was prominent in the 70's - and we were told by many people the doom and gloom of how we were going to freeze. That is a fact irregardless of my personal expressions.

As for the 2 million tires that sit on the bottom of the ocean that the military is cleaning up after a ECO GROUP with good intentions put them on the bottom of the ocean to protect the corral life ecosystem - which in turn is actually destroying the system instead - again that is fact - so, yes - you can rag me for my personal expressions, but if you do not have the balls to face the truth and only use my personal expressions as an excuse to ignore the facts -- hey that your way of dealing with life.

Again, some how people miss the point -- I am for taking care of the planet...just not taking care of lies that fit personal beliefs and not scientific research, nor am I into one side scientific data.

My point is that people need to chill on the eco-freak side which causes damage and confusion and leads to misguided attempts and maybe actually do something good for the planet...

The road to Global Warming is paved with good intentions.

Answer 1

No. STOP GLOBAL WHINING!!!

Answer 2

Sadly, no one but you remembers any great freeze anyone was supposed to give anyone any money to fix. A few people might remember some small support of global cooling by one or two members of the scientific community (whose views were not widely held, sort of like the global warming skeptics') but there certainly wasn't any 'Big-Freeze Eco-Freak show'.

And I can't remember anyone 'screaming' about the coral reefs, which are actually in danger, by the way. So it appears that you are either making stuff up or are not well informed on these issues.

Edit: I wasn't ragging on you for your use pf personal expressions. I was saying that no global cooling scare existed at all in the 70's, and that you've made the whole thing up. I have yet to find one single person aside from global warming 'skeptics' who remember anything at all about this supposed scare. There were, insofar as I know, no peer reviewed publications ever written on the subject, and the only time it was even mentioned in the media at all was in a few articles in national Geographic and Newsweek. So if you were scared about this I'm sorry, but you- and apparently a few other 'skeptics'- were the only ones who were.

Of course, all of this is aside from the fact that there actually =was= a cooling trend from the 1940's through the early 70's. It was caused by a major increase in use of aerosols and other particulates. Since then stricter regulations have been put on these chemical's usage, and the cooling trend has stopped.

Answer 3

Oh yes, I remember the great freeze. Very well. But that wasn't a big push by the scientific community. It was a small group of scientist (much like the anti-climate change group) and the media.

And the coral reefs are still very much in danger...so I am not sure what you are talking about.

And I agree, people can freak out and go over the top. But this is often a result of people not listening to reason, honestly looking at the data and science and realizing what evidence is out there.

So then the eco freaks, which I may be one of, feel like they have to get a little louder so people might hear and eventually listen.

And in all honesty....what do you gain by not using less resources, reducing waste and living more simply? I just don't get it....

Answer 4

I remember. There was a lot of warm feelings by the media for the tire dumpers. The global freeze scare was called the "new ice age" I think. Popular mechanics ran articles on how to add insulation to your house and improve heater efficiency.

Answer 5

I graduated from high school in '75 and don't recall anyone talking about (let alone asking for contributions) a great freeze.
I DO remember scientists giving warnings a couple decades ago when they started to find that species of frogs were dying out and mutating. Frogs 'breathe' through their skin and they are the first in the barametor of life on earth to suffer from imbalances of natural resourses. No one seemed to be concerned aside from herpatologists. Global warming is nothing new, Al Gore just helped document and present facts which pushed the issue to the forefront where it should have been a looonnnggg time ago.

Answer 6

Good story. I remember the coral reef projects - there were more than one of these. I seem to remember some along the Louisiana-Alabama coast lines. It's just another example of well-intentioned warnings of eco-disasters leading to destructive consequences. (What kind of excuse is claiming "I don't remember it happening" or that it was a pollution scheme posing as an ecology project?)

Don't forget that the banning of DDT resulted in the estimated deaths of 3 million people worldwide. To this day, people wrongly think that DDT-use is destructive to the environment.

Answer 7

Like you pointed it you (Time, Life, etc...) the great freeze was made by journalists based on biased understanding of the science, not by scientists.

Scientists understand the scale of the phenomenons affecting the climate system while journalist understand a timespan which is about... till the next edition ?

At the time of this "global freezing" idea, the global warming theory already existed.

The only thing which changed is that we now have much better ways to collect data and analyse them:
- satellite records
- computer simulations
- new mathematic tools (finite elements method)

Answer 8

Save the whales. I remember the "freeze" and the reef, but I believe the tires were used as fish habitat where the reefs were already dead, not realizing that nature has a way of cleaning itself up once man gets out of the way.

Answer 9

Yeah, I remember all that bleeding heart crap when it was new. It is just a fake and false as "global warming" is today. Nobody used to pay any attention or give credence to the quacks, losers, or one track minded jerks that squawked about all kinds of imagined paranoid delusions about nature. That doesn't count all the man created disasters in pathetic efforts to try to change, stop, or "fix" nature. Nature takes care of itself with no "help" from "good intentioned" freakoutskis.
What are they gonna do when terrorists start killing them just because they are easy prey? THAT'S what is the real thing we need to worry about if the Dims get back in power!

Answer 10

That doesn't sound like it was ever a green project. It was just a plan to cheaply dispose of old tires disguised as a reef project.

Answer 11

good point- One must walk ones own path