Climate alarm runs cold and hot.

As previously discussed in my March 20 column, following three decades of cooling from the mid-1940s to late ’70s that prominent scientists and media sources warned was a terrifying harbinger of the next Ice Age, a mere decade of warming temperatures later became trumpeted by some of those same experts as a reverse threat, one dramatized by then-Sen. Al Gore during his theatrically staged 1988 U.S. Senate hearings on the matter.

For example, a 1978 New York Times headline had urgently warned that an “International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling in Northern Hemisphere.”

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