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We were not all doomed to freeze to death in a new ice age. I think there were a couple of news pieces about it in the late seventies here in the UK. I even bou
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
We were not all doomed to freeze to death in a new ice age. I think there were a couple of news pieces about it in the late seventies here in the UK. I even bought one of the shitty conspiracy paperbacks about it in 1980-something. Just as I bought Erich von Däniken's hilarious Chariot of the Gods proving the pyramids were built by aliens.
On the other hand there were dozens and dozens of news reports, over a lengthy period, about acid rain, climate and ozone in the early and mid eighties. The world bothered to do something about two. We hear far less of those two and the Millennium Bug these days. Which is taken as proof nowadays that they were never a problem in the first place. Errr...
- olivermarks 7y agohttps://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/10/8/anatomy-of-an-environmental-scare https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/10/8/anatomy-o...
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoOh c'mon. We mandated the use of sulphur scrubbers on power stations, and catalytic converters on vehicles. Which is not the same as "just fading away". Edit: 1985 Helsinki Protocol (UK and USA conspicuously absent), and superceded by the 1988 NOx Protocol that includes UK and USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_Oxide_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_Oxide_Protocol
- olivermarks 7y agosee lliamander's citations on this thread
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoNo one (I hope), disputes there were published papers and news reports of those papers on cooling, but it was not the consensus. It wasn't frequent. Those citations above point to a handful of reports. At the same time there were also reports of heating, which were more frequent. Though there weren't exactly loads of those yet either. Now, there were certainly one or two that blew it up, e.g. the remaindered paperback I picked up for 50p or something round about 1980. I'm pretty sure BBC's Horizon never touched it, though they did do the odd "out there" programme each series. They did one myth-busting von Däniken's silliness sometime in the early or mid 70s.