Climate Change: Montana Magazine Circa 1980

Yesterday morning another five-thousand or so emails were released by someone likely resurrecting the climate community's headache caused by the two year old Climatic Research Unit email controversy (climategate).

Just as the nothing-to-see-here hearings about the original climategate leak have subsided, and just prior to COP17 in Durban, these newly leaked emails could spell big trouble for the main architects of the United Nations IPCC "science".

So in light of one initial bit of new information from this latest release, on the blocking of scientific literature (gatekeeping), I'm posting a thirty-one year old article from the Montana Weather section of a 1980 Montana Magazine warning of the increased weather variability (extreme events) due to cooler temperatures ...

"The Good News and Bad News About Climate Change" by Grayson Cordell'People who study climate changes do agree on one thing though; cooler temperatures cause an increase in the variability of the weather. Alternating extremes in temperatures and precipitation in any given area would occur — more hot and cold spells, droughts and floods. This almost certainly would lower average crop yields.'
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'Droughts and floods become more frequent.'
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'If further cooling should continue, effects would be more drastic. In a matter of centuries ice packs would build, ceasing to melt during the summers. Changes in vegetation would occur more quickly. Forests would become prairies in less than a century. Semi-arid areas such as much of Montana would become deserts in a few decades.'


The article (part 1 and part 2) is actually pretty well written and even mentions global warming caused by carbon dioxide, it is just that global cooling was the consensus at the time.

An interesting read, I believe, as the fallout from this latest email release begins to trickle in.

*** Update 11/24/11 included link in text "nothing-to-see-here hearings"
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