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When I was growing up we had a set of encyclopedias from the 70s. They were predicting a new ice age coming if we didn't change our ways. Anyone else remember t
by mysterydip 7y ago
When I was growing up we had a set of encyclopedias from the 70s. They were predicting a new ice age coming if we didn't change our ways. Anyone else remember this? I doubt I can find them online but I'll look.
- pragmar 7y agoThere was a paper by Rasool and Schneider in 1971 that was behind this, I think. "Our ways" would've been industrial particulate pollution, where a 4x increase, sustained, risked kicking off a new ice age. Schneider later retracted the findings in 1974.
- mysterydip 7y agoAh, thanks for explaining the (possible/likely) origin!