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Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.

Peter Gwynne, Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

[T]he threat of the new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

Nigel Calder, International Wildlife, July, 1975.

The cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations… If it continues, and no strong measures are taken to deal with it, the cooling will cause world famine, world chaos, and probably world war, and this could all come by the year 2000.

Lowell Ponte, The Cooling, 1976.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since World War II is also in accord with the increased global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and an exploding population.

Reid Bryson, Global Ecology: Readings Towards A Rational Strategy For Man, 1971.

An increase by only a factor of four in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5 degrees Kelvin… sufficient to trigger an ice-age.

Dr S I Rasool and Dr S H Schneider, Science, July 9, 1971.