Climate Change: What's your take?

[thranx]

Shadow1980 said:

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. a theory that may have some weight, but was blown out of proportion by the media and false science. Like I said, better to focus on water pollution and particle air pollution.

Relevant part that you overlooked bolded, italicized, and capitalized. Reviews of the scientific literature of the time shows that while a minority of scientists did show concern that then-increasing levels of sulfur dioxide may result in a long-term cooling trend (SO2 not only causes respiratory problems and acid rain, but also can have a cooling effect on the climate; projections of future cooling assumed a quadrupling of SO2 emissions [see Rasool & Schneider, 1971), most scientists were still predicting warming, and the passage of laws in the U.S. and similar laws elsewhere caused global SO2 emissions to begin a decline, thus preventing any potential cooling trend. Nobody was predicting an impending ice age. "Global cooling" was a manufactroversy drummed up by the media. It was not a claim widely supported amongst actual scientists.

 

Hind sight is 20/20 and the victors write the history. Like i said in 20 years the same will be said of global warming. Have you not noticed that it has already begun. With the new term being climate change.

 

If the science behind global warming/climate change is so sound why are the predictions so off? If they know what they are talking about, if the science is true, why can they not accuratly predict global temperature trends?

 

The media, but more o politics, have made global warming science a farce. its now a business and industry and its self serving itself. Of course climate "scientist" will support it, their jobs depend on it.

 

When we have only one agency that takes the info and it can't be trusted to give correct info it hard to take the science behind it seriously