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n the fall of 1973, a prominent climate scientist named Reid Bryson took the stage at an American Association of Geographers conference, and to a crowd of hundreds packed inside the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire banquet hall, he explained that the planet was cooling.
A young student named Steve LaDochy recalls sitting in the audience and being impressed with Brysonās climate presentation, which showed that a heavily-polluted Earth had entered a cooling period. āHe brought along slides, and it looked to me like very compelling evidence. So I went along with it,ā says LaDochy, who today studies geoscience at California State University, Los Angeles.
Bryson wasnāt alone in his beliefs ā and still isnāt.
A 1974 CIA report expressed concern over ādetrimental global climate change,ā citing more snow, cold spells and weather anomalies. In 1976, James Hayes, who studied Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, told The New York Times that global cooling had already begun, and if this became a long-term trend, āthere is not much doubt that we will build substantial ice on the Northern Hemisphere continents.ā Even the weather seemed to agree. Harsh winters brought historic blizzards, including the destructive āWhite Hurricaneā of 1978.
But Earth was not cooling. An ice age was never imminent. And few scientists agreed with Brysonās claims, although this hasnāt prevented climate change deniers from using these unfulfilled cooling forecasts to attack the legitimacy of climate scientists today. The new op-ed hire at The New York Times, Bret Stephens, perpetuated the idea on Fox News. āThis is just the next stage of preposterous in the global warming story,ā said Stephens. āIn the 1970s we were supposed to believe in global cooling, in the 1980s it was a nuclear winter, in the 1990s it was mad cow disease.
Global warming was the flavor of the decade ā I canāt wait to see what the next scare is going to be.ā
Given the tremendous size and heat capacity of the global oceans, it takes a massive amount of added heat energy to raise Earthās average yearly surface temperature even a small amount. The roughly 2-degree Fahrenheit (1 degrees Celsius) increase in global average surface temperature that has occurred since the pre-industrial era (1850-1900 in NOAAās record) might seem small, but it means a significant increase in accumulated heat.
That extra heat is driving regional and seasonal temperature extremes, reducing snow cover and sea ice, intensifying heavy rainfall, and changing habitat ranges for plants and animalsāexpanding some and shrinking others. As the map below shows, most land areas have warmed faster than most ocean areas, and the Arctic is warming faster than most other regions. In addition, itās clear that the rate of warming over the past few decades is much faster than the average rate since the start of the 20th century.
