"Some private environmental groups criticized the shift [in strategy], saying that it was essential for countries to intensify efforts to blunt the human impact on climate even as they seek ways to deal with the consequences." -- NY Times, October 23, 2002 on the urging of government leaders to address the problem of Global Warming.

"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality." -- Newsweek, April 28, 1975 on the urging of government leaders to address the problem of Global Cooling.

In the 1970s, it was widely predicted that Global Cooling would shorten the growing cycles and cause widespread famine. Worried about a shortage of fresh water due to ice piling up, there were even plans to try to melt part of the polar ice caps.