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Originally Posted by xtb
Actually, it was first "global cooling" which hatched "Earth Day" in 1970. I can remember the propaganda in third grade and being scared that there was going to be another ice age in my lifetime. Yep, the "AV" team rolled the black and white television into the room and we had to watch how the earth was getting colder and we were all going to perish if we kept polluting. Those were the good ol' days.
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The article on global cooling was published in 1975. The idea for a national day to focus on the environment was initially pushed by a senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson. Most of his interest came after the massive Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969. Most of the legwork was done by Harvard professor named Denis Hayes. Hayes recruited people across the country and settled on April 22, 1970 as the first earth day (spring break at Harvard). Seven months later the EPA was established.
The global cooling article in Newsweek has been dismissed many times over, most especially by the scientist who inspired it. He has since become part of the large contingent of scientists who believe we are in a period of significant global warming. The person who wrote the article said this years later.
Now, as the author of that story, after decades of scientific advances, let me say this: while the hypotheses described in that original story seemed right at the time, climate scientists now know that they were seriously incomplete. Our climate is warming -- not cooling, as the original story suggested.
They probably did show you videos, but you seem to be significantly off in your dates.
