http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/25925/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/famous-journalists-70s-ice-obsession-glaciers-down-mason-dixon-line <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> ‘Murrow Boy’ Howard K. Smith also feared ice age, cited scientists and called their arguments ‘pretty convincing.’ </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/134561" width="593" height="334" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p dir="ltr">Some climate alarmists are already trying to play up legendary journalist Walter Cronkite’s April 3, 1980, coverage of “global warming” and the “<a href="http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2015/04/walter-cronkite-climate-change-news-broadcast">greenhouse effect</a>.” But what they will almost certainly ignore is that only a few years earlier Cronkite and fellow journalists were warning about a “new ice age.”</p><div class='signature'><p>— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BizMediaJulia" target="_blank">Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/famous-journalists-70s-ice-obsession-glaciers-down-mason-dixon-line" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Climate Change Environment Media 1970s global cooling scare abc climate alarmism Climate Change climatology famous journalists global cooling Global Warming historic news footage Howard K. Smith ice age Journalists media scares Reid Bryson Science scientists Walter Cronkite Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:58:30 +0000 julia.seymour 48595 at http://archive2.mrc.org