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> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. Really? I do: https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-interme

> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. Really? I do: https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970... > Again, I just don't recall ever hearing this. I think he's referring to either the "acid rain/forest die-off: http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-acid-rain-forest-die-off-prove-to-be-pure-fallacy-from-hysterical-scientists-a/#sthash.mnIrc2TA.dpbs http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac... or the rainforest (this article contains a bunch of environmental scares that didn't happen): http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-acid-rain-forest-die-off-prove-to-be-pure-fallacy-from-hysterical-scientists-a/#sthash.mnIrc2TA.dpbs http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac... Or maybe the forest fire commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MW0Bi7L4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MW0Bi7L4 Or maybe conflating them to make a point.

anderspitman 10y ago
The first article you linked seems to indicate that most scientists in peer reviewed papers were actually predicting warming, not cooling (42 papers vs 7 papers). Also, I didn't read it carefully but I did not see anything mentioning the government claiming these things. However, I think it's still an important point that climate change skeptics CLAIM to have been told these these in the 70s, and use it as an important part of their argument.