CIA And Global Cooling

By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Rick Bradford

 

 

I’ve seen snips of this before, but Rick has now sent me the whole original report.

Many attempts have been made to discredit and marginalise stories of the global cool down in the 1960’s and 70’s. As we know, these were not simply scare stories but were based on factual evidence from authoritative scientists such as HH Lamb and others.

Much of this cooling has since been wiped from the record by revisionist temperature adjustments, but the reality is that the authorities of the time were extremely concerned, not so much by the temperature measurements themselves, but by the climatic effects which resulted.

As I have reported before here, the White House set up a special Subcommittee in 1974 to “assess the problem and determine what concerted action ought to be undertaken”.

In the same year, the CIA prepared this working paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Page 5, they go into more detail on agricultural problems:

 

 

 

The report then describes how the problems crept up:

 

 

They go on to explain how global cooling, particularly relating to a colder Arctic, had a severe impact on droughts around the world.

Note also the comment about “a more variable climate”. This refers to the jet stream becoming more meridional and less zonal. This in turn brings cold weather to some parts and warm to others. (Note the cold winters in the US West, and mild ones in the East – the same situation we have had recently, only in reverse).

Meridional jet streams also bring weather blocking. This phenomenon, unsurprisingly, is now being blamed on the “melting Arctic” by the current, mentally challenged bunch of climate scientists.

 

 

Mention is made of the work done at the University of Wisconsin:

 

 

 

They conclude:

 

 

 

Today, the emphasis appears to be on worrying about rising temperatures per se, and trying to find negative impacts.

Back in the 1970’s it was very much the other way round. They realised that in many respects the climate was deteriorating, to the extent that it was playing havoc with the world’s food production.

They were quick to realise that the early 20thC was “the best agricultural climate since the 11thC”, and that the Little Ice Age was a period of “drought, famine and political unrest”.

 

They were wrong about what would happen in following decades, but the problems they saw and the causes of them were very real indeed.

 

 

The full report can be read here.