70s Revisited

A lengthy article in the Russian newspaper Pravda is reporting that we are on the brink of a new ice age.

Not only do I remember the ice storms of New England in the early 70s, I also remember watching a documentary about the coming ice age as a little girl.

What's the big deal about the 70s, well that was when...

Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists, and hence the Milankovich theory is always described in textbooks of climatology and in encyclopaedia articles about the Ice Ages.

According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.

I'm sure the "global warming" and "climate change" folks are going to have a field day with this.

Especially the ending of this article...

The AGW [anthropogenic global warming- my addition] theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.

Apparently Slovenia is experiencing -49C, brrrr.