The New York Times Has Been Predicting Polar Ice Melt for 128 Years

Wall Street Pit Magazine – Funny – the New York Times has been reporting on the Polar ice melt for over 100 years, and usually blaming it on man. The dumbest is the 1959 story of the ice disappearing – which was followed by 20 years of Global Cooling. From the Daily Telegraph (Australia), Eternal Melting: From the New York Times, 128 years of looming polar doom:1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting “¦” 1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents” 1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer” Read Article

Ed – If they keep predicting it long enough one day they may even get it right

Tags: Arctic & Antarctica, climate, history, media