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Weren't documentaries predicting a global climate cooling in 1978 ? In that context, did Exxon think they were saving the climate ? https://www.youtube.com/watc
by 1337shadow 7y ago
Weren't documentaries predicting a global climate cooling in 1978 ? In that context, did Exxon think they were saving the climate ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-_SXLMMfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-_SXLMMfo
- keithnz 7y agoThey were predicting a mini ice age due to reduced solar activity. That is studied and incorporated in the climate models we have today.
- breakyerself 7y agoEven in the 70s most climate scientists were expecting human caused global warming. The cooling thing was more a media phenomenon. 1965 - 1979 there were a total of 7 scientific papers predicting a cooling climate. Compared to 42 predicting human caused global warming (Peterson 2008).
- 1337shadow 7y agoPretty interesting, thanks for answering. I wasn't even born, found a nice wiki link where scientists predicted cooling because of aerosol increase but the greenhouse effect was apparently published about in 1972 so they should have known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science#Scientists_increasingly_predict_warming,_1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...