On July 9, 1971, the [Washington] Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming." It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man's use of fossil fuels.
The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in "the next 50 years" [i.e., by 2021] fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.
Sustained emissions over five to 10 years [i.e., by 1976-1981], Rasool claimed, "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
Aiding Rasool's research, the Post reported, was a "computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen," who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time.
If NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen, "the global warming alarmist in chief" has the right to form his own conclusions to the point of
radically changing his mind, why does he deny that right and ascribe sinister motivations to those who disagree with him?
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