Remember Worries About Global Cooling?

Remember Worries About Global Cooling? - Newsweek

" In April, 1975... NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster... the threat was: global cooling.... In fact, the story wasn't 'wrong' in the journalistic sense of 'inaccurate'.... the tools scientists have at their disposal now—vastly more data, incomparably faster computers and infinitely more sophisticated mathematical models—render any forecasts from 1975 as inoperative as the predictions being made around the same time about the inevitable triumph of communism."

This conclusion is as amusing as it is prescient. One can imagine the counterpart article in 2029 explaining how global warming didn't quite work out like they predicted, and how that doesn't make them 'wrong' about global climate. Newsweek's unabashed excuse making is as unapologetic as the weatherman who got the weekly forecast wrong. Until climatologists can tell us with certainty what next week holds, we should remain skeptical of what they tell us next decade, century, or millennium holds.