What Happened to That Recent Ice Age?
Michaels outlined three periods of atmospheric change in the last 100 years of U.S. history, noting a warming in the first part of the 20th century, a cooling in the middle part of the century and a warming in the latter part of the century. “There is the cooling of the mid-20th century that gave rise to congressional hearings in the mid-1970s about the coming ice age, and [scientists were asked], ‘Could you use a couple billion dollars to study this?'” Michaels said. The money politicized the scientific process and “consume billions of dollars of your money,” he said. “The more money you throw at [climate science], the less certainty you get. If you shut off all the money, the scientists would probably all agree,” he said. The scientific proof that man could not affect our environment with emissions of greenhouse gases in any catastrophic way already exists, Michaels believes. “Paleo records indicate that the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was up
