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This is similar to comments about how supposedly early environment scientists believed we were about to have a cooling crisis before changing their minds. It s

This is similar to comments about how supposedly early environment scientists believed we were about to have a cooling crisis before changing their minds. It seems like that was not really the case. At least I don't find much evidence that this was the consensus.

colechristensen 1y ago
Generally overstated and repeated by folks with an agenda these days, but yes there were some concerns about cooling particularly one or two steps away from actual research. And there were some periods of slight cooling in the 20th century and in the north atlantic there was the "little ice age" for a few hundred years depending on who you ask. There wasn't a consensus and science isn't a democracy where the most popular idea wins. Global climate ideas and modeling are very new and if you go back to the 70s or the 20s "consensus" isn't what you're looking for, nobody should have been particularly sure of anything as there wasn't enough information available.