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We stopped "global cooling" with very little difficulty in the 70s. Peak oil and overpopulation as well, all we had to do was nothing.
by sennight 5y ago
We stopped "global cooling" with very little difficulty in the 70s. Peak oil and overpopulation as well, all we had to do was nothing.
- CraigJPerry 5y agoWe didn’t stop global cooling, we learned that it didn’t exist. We learned that the conjecture was wrong.
- sennight 5y agoThat is the point. Funny how these things tend to call for the same cure. At least for that one we got a movie narrated by Spock, detailing how we were all going to freeze to death.
- CraigJPerry 5y agoPursuing a hypothesis and disproving it is not the same as doing nothing
- sennight 5y agoSo which of those words describes the dissemination of propaganda, "pursuing"? Also, how was the falsifiable anthropological global cooling hypothesis disproven? Careful, you don't want to accidentally disprove global warming or draw comparisons to inconsistently applied standards of proof with that answer.
- adrianN 5y agoTechnically we stopped global cooling by successfully fighting acid rain. Sulphur emissions have a cooling effect. Eventually CO2 would've overtaken that effect anyway.
- adrianN 5y agoAt no point was global cooling a majority prediction among climate scientists. It mostly existed in the popsci press.