| thranx said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling "Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, which showed a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. The current scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but underwent global warming throughout the 20th century." in 20 years they will have this same description for global warming. |
Who's this 'they' you're referring to? The scientists? Read your copy-paste job again:
"This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, press reports did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, [scientific climate literature] showed a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions"
40+ years ago, a greater degree of literature was predicting global warming than global cooling and it was correct: the average global climate has exhibited an upward trend. This seems to suggest we should stop listening to the press and start listening to the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
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thranx said: a theory that may have some weight, but was blown out of proportion by the media and false science. |
Even more reason to stop listening to the media and false science.
