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Young people have to rely on appealing arguments to know what was talked about in the 1970s. Older people remember "the coming ice age".
by jessaustin 7y ago
Young people have to rely on appealing arguments to know what was talked about in the 1970s. Older people remember "the coming ice age".
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoI'm old enough to have been around then. There may have been some popular articles about a coming ice age, but I don't remember any sort of consensus in the scientific community about that.
- jessaustin 7y agoNo I don't think we ever heard of any consensus about that. Was that because climatology was sort of a niche field, or maybe we just didn't think about consensus as much back then?
- chimprich 7y agoFrom the article I cited: "Unfortunately, the small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember." There may have been more reporting of ice age predictions, but that wasn't what the scientists were saying.