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"Later ... it was decided that the trend was upwards." Between '65 and '79 there were 6 times as many research papers predicting warming. That was even despite
by whitie 11y ago
"Later ... it was decided that the trend was upwards."
Between '65 and '79 there were 6 times as many research papers predicting warming. That was even despite increasing knowledge of Ice Ages.
"The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus"
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1
- Isamu 11y agoNot trying to be controversial or anything ... just that the reporting on the ice age thinking had traction in popular press. Nor am I saying that this represented a consensus view that later changed to another consensus view. I think, however, that it took time before the ice age faction gave way. Meanwhile, in reading popular science reporting of the time, I think it is not too subjective to claim that the ice age notion took hold for bit in the public imagination before global warming did.
- whitie 11y agoI just linked the paper to show that what you did say was incorrect. This is really not the forum for half sayings and saying what-nots.
- hueving 11y agoWtf are you talking about? The guy is talking about what he experienced in the 70s. Are you seriously going to claim his memory is fucked and they were actually saying 'hot age' when they were saying 'ice age'? Regardless of what the scientific consensus was of the time, a pending ice age was reported in the mainstream media.
- whitie 11y agoDon't have a tantrum. "Later on more work was done to get better global temperature proxies and it was decided that the trend was upwards." Anecdotal memories of an article or two on Ice ages in the Seventies do nothing to support that claim - It was wrong. nuff said