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In the 1970s, everybody was freaked about "global cooling". Anybody who lived through that era will be skeptical about current predictions saying precisely the
by rippercushions 4y ago
In the 1970s, everybody was freaked about "global cooling". Anybody who lived through that era will be skeptical about current predictions saying precisely the opposite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
- XorNot 4y agoLiterally from the article you linked: > Some press reports in the 1970s speculated about continued cooling; these did not accurately reflect the scientific literature of the time, which was generally more concerned with warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect. That entire article makes it very clear that at the time the only little pushing it were charlatan media orgs, and one guy who very obviously made a career of opposing every single scientific consensus[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer
- rippercushions 4y agoIf you lived through the 1970s, you saw "charlatan media orgs" pushing global cooling, and now you see the same orgs pushing global warming. Hence the skepticism, despite the science behind warming being far more established than cooling ever was.
- jbay808 4y agoEverybody? From your own citation: > Concern peaked in the early 1970s, though "the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then"
- tzs 4y agoOthers have already pointed out that it was only a small fraction of experts. But even if it had been a majority (or even "everybody") your point still completely fails because you are not taking into account why they predicted global cooling. The predictions were not "we will have global cooling no matter what". They were "we will have global cooling if the amount of particulate pollution in the atmosphere gets too high, which if current trends continue will happen". Particulate pollution has a cooling effect. But we undertook a massive effort to reign in particulate pollution. We not only stopped their rise but actually greatly reduced their level.
- throwuwu 4y agoCan we resume particulate emission but limit it to particles that remain high up in the atmosphere in order to balance global warming?
- taberiand 4y agoThat's called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...