The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Hardcover]

Lowell Ponte (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 306 pages
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013172312X
• ISBN-13: 978-0131723122
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #602,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Ponte finally comes to his senses, August 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Hardcover)

Funny how time can change one's mind. It seems that experience and common sense often brings about realizations of past mistakes. And so is with this book. As Mr Ponte writes today:

"But the Leftist press continues to quote bug and flower scientists about global warming - including doomsayers who three decades ago were predicting a fast-approaching, planet-freezing ice age. (I should know, being author of the 1976 Prentice-Hall bestselling climate book The Cooling.)

As you probably recognized, all such Leftist doomsaying - hothouse or ice age, wet or dry, population explosion or drastic decline - calls for the same remedy. We must have bigger government, more political regulation and control, higher taxes, and permit less individual and private sector liberty if we are to survive whatever is this year's fashionable danger."

It is always refreshing to see this - hopefully more of the doom and gloom crowd will awaken to reality and see beyond their wishful utopian view of the world.

29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Make up your mind, March 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Hardcover)

This book shows what a joke the environmental movement is. one of the best sellers of the 70's warning us of global cooling. today it's global warming.hmmm maybe global temperatures just naturally fluctuate

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ponte, a Journalist who actually knows science?, June 9, 2001

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"montag451" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Hardcover)

I read this book some time ago and found it interesting and readable. Ponte explains that the earth may be in fact in an intergalacial period and that the earth may soon be actually cooling. Ponte examines the scientific data and presents it in a convincing manner.