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Whenever I see an article with a headline like this, I always wonder... was it actually faster than anyone ever predicted? Was there really not at least one cr
by mehwoot 13y ago
Whenever I see an article with a headline like this, I always wonder... was it actually faster than anyone ever predicted? Was there really not at least one crazy guy in the 70's who said "Man, Greenland's ice sheets are going to be completely gone by the year 2000".
Or at least a more aggressive model from somebody. Seems a bit unbelievable not a single scientist got the current melting within the range of one of their models.
- ams6110 13y agoIn the 1970s we were worried about "global cooling" and a possible coming ice age.
- mehwoot 13y agoI hadn't heard about that before, but I googled it and this interesting link came up. http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s... TL;DR The small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember.
- eliasmacpherson 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science#Scientists_increasingly_predict_warming.2C_1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie... From that I'm pretty sure that wiki page that 'global cooling' was not the only concern. also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6815470/Copenhagen-climate-summit-Al-Gore-condemned-over-Arctic-ice-melting-prediction.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-c...