| Final-Fan said: The idea that global cooling was a major concern is just bogus, I can't believe how widespread that misinformation is. |
You know... I just don't know. I wasn't really aware for my small time in the 1970s.
I saw the Wikipedia link you mentioned in another thread and, given the nature of Wikipedia, and how fickle people tend to be, it gets me to wonder. (And also, the article on global cooling certainly seems to me to be written from a particular... perspective.)
Was global cooling a major concern in the way that global warming is today? Probably not, though I suspect that at least some of global warming's traction has to do with the advent of the Internet and the rise of a very powerful environmentalist movement.
It's probably useless to speculate what the Wikipedia article on global cooling would have been like in the mid 1970s, or what a Wikipedia article on global warming would look like forty-plus years from now, should global warming be "disproven" tomorrow.
But were global warming disproved, I suspect that there would be many people who would seek to wash their hands of their involvement in the controversy, and look to downplay it as much as possible.
This is not to take anything away from any current theory regarding global warming; I'm not studied enough to be able to really say. But I can certainly believe a claim that current concerns echo concerns over diametrically opposed scenarios just a few decades back--it's not climatology that people love, it's doomsday.
