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I remember science news articles about cooling rather than warming. Newsweek had to retract at least one of theirs: https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rewind-deb

• defrost 2y ago
  Sure, "news articles" put out by fossil fuel / Koch brother backed think tanks were already spreading the FUD 40 years ago. That's at least how long C02 emmissions have been recognised as a pressing problem and how long those making Texas Oil baron profits (globally, not just in Texas) have been delibrately confusing the issue to avoid doing anything to slow emmissions. The first sound thoughts on the matter were over a century past, rightly speculating on the consequences of putting more blankets on the bed (ie: more insulating gases in the atmosphere), and the first solid atmospheric geophysics paper on C02 and warming dates back to 1967. The "aww, but an ice age" stuff is just a distraction for the kiddies. If anything, that stuff really highlights the issue as assuming "all things being the same" the planet probably should be headed back into more glaciation (we're already in an "ice age" - the poles have ice; we're in an age of cyclic glaciation) .. except it isn't. Humans have not only stopped the expected advance of glaciers, we've added enough insulation to reverse them and start to heat up our "sweet spot" of the ages in which human civilisation developed.
• HWR_14 2y ago
  Sure, there were some news articles about a theory held by a couple of scientists. But the scientific consensus was that global warming was an issue.
  • briantakita 2y ago
    There isn't even a Scientific consensus right now.