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Were many scientists insisting that global cooling was a problem?
by crummy 4y ago
Were many scientists insisting that global cooling was a problem?
- blkhawk 4y agonot as far as the rest of the world or the scientists at the time were concerned. From what i read it was mostly a US news-media thing.
- random314 4y agoApparently everyone alive today were also alive in the 70s and reading the latest scientific reports from climate journals. They somehow also managed to miss all the papers on global warming, while the 2 papers on cooling left a huge impression.
- origin_path 4y agoThey all insisted that the world was cooling because that's what official data at the time showed. Only some insisted it was or could be a problem, but of course those were the ones that got media and political attention. The same is true today. Almost all scientists believe the world is warming. Only some extrapolate that into a crisis, but those are the ones who get media and political attention. There are lots of claims being made in this thread that aren't true, e.g. - only two papers talking about global cooling (wrong) - journalists were inverting what scientists believed (wrong) - there was no consensus on cooling (wrong; see how none of the papers discussing the cooling trend note any disagreement on its existence) and so on. For examples of media reports and scientific papers talking about global cooling see my other posts.