“LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD Sunday, March 11, 1979 Page 8A
DENVER (AP) — The Midwest is buried under unusually heavy snows.
California goes through two winters of extreme drought, then is inundated by rain. The South shivers with unaccustomed cold.
Recurrent drought brings famine and death to areas of West Africa. India is soaked by floods; northern Europe battered by severe storms.
What’s happening to our climate” Do such increasingly frequent extremes portend a new pattern? Are we headed for another ice age? Or trouble from a gradual heating of the Earth by mankind’s industrial and agricultural activities?
One thing is indisputable: the world has been cooling off since World War II, something like one degree Fahrenheit.”
