A HISTORY OF CLIMATE SCARES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: 1978, “NO END IN SIGHT TO 30-YEAR COOLING TREND..."

A HISTORY OF CLIMATE SCARES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: 1978, “NO END IN SIGHT TO 30-YEAR COOLING TREND; ” 1988, “GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEGUN”
A HISTORY OF CLIMATE SCARES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: 

• 1978, “NO END IN SIGHT TO 30-YEAR COOLING TREND; ” 
• 1988, “GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEGUN”

JULY 23, 2022 CAP ALLON

• NASA’s James Hansen started the global warming scare during the very hot summer of 1988. The New York Times reported the following on June 24, 1988: Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ”greenhouse effect.”
• But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere.

But what credibility can the New York Times have left?
For decades prior, the publication was scaremongering about the opposite climatic catastrophe: Global Cooling.
Below is an article from 1961, where the NYT is bracing citizens of the U.S. for a colder world:

The global scientific consensus back in 1961 was that the world “is getting colder”.