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I also remember similar predictions from the late 1980s. I think the bottom line is that prognostications of doom sell much better than more conservative predi
by motters 16y ago
I also remember similar predictions from the late 1980s. I think the bottom line is that prognostications of doom sell much better than more conservative predictions with caveats and margins of error added. Scaremongering is more likely to result in increases in funding, career promotion, magazine/journal articles, impassioned speeches by celebrities, etc.
- hga 16y agoI'm a bit older (was in third grade in '69-70, right after watching Apollo 11 in real time) and the climate science consensus in the '70s and I think before was that we were headed for very bad global cooling, a new Ice Age that would put a mile of ice on top of much of the continental US. Read rather a lot of topical science fiction based on this "science". Of course it was all man's fault (ignore that we're due for another Ice Age anytime now, see e.g. Fallen Angels: http://www.baen.com/library/ http://www.baen.com/library/ -> The Authors -> Larry Niven) due to sulfur dioxide increasing the reflectivity of clouds.