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I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. I wonder whatever happened to that argument. Must've not gotten as much benefits

by ethana 13y ago

I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. I wonder whatever happened to that argument. Must've not gotten as much benefits as 'global warming' I guess.

rsynnott 13y ago
> I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. A lot of people seem to be "remembering" that lately. Indeed, there were some concerns of an ice age somewhere in the next few millennia, but global warming was already on the table, and becoming the mainstream (scientific) view by the 80s. The term didn't really hit mainstream public use until the late 80s. There was a separate scare about imminent global cooling in the early 70s, but it was largely media-driven, had little support in the scientific community, and never became terribly mainstream.
- DanBC 13y ago
  My local museum had dioramas about the coming ice age. It was science of its time - we've spent a lot more time and money on climate science since then. We have much more powerful computers (What's a modern smartphone like compared to the total world computing power in 1975?). It is unfortunate that denialists use it to argue against ACC but don't make the mistake of saying that "the ice age was never serious" - it was.
JulianMorrison 13y ago
Both right. We were heading for an ice age. Not any more.
- drharris 13y ago
  So we fixed it?
  - JulianMorrison 13y ago
    In the sense that setting you on fire is a fix for hypothermia.
czr80 13y ago
Wikipedia, first hit on Google: "Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions." But this is so easy to find that I suspect the details don't really matter to you. Perhaps another wikipedia article might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
- od2m 13y ago
  Revisionist history much?

by ethana 13y ago

I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. I wonder whatever happened to that argument. Must've not gotten as much benefits as 'global warming' I guess.

rsynnott 13y ago

> I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. A lot of people seem to be "remembering" that lately. Indeed, there were some concerns of an ice age somewhere in the next few millennia, but global warming was already on the table, and becoming the mainstream (scientific) view by the 80s. The term didn't really hit mainstream public use until the late 80s. There was a separate scare about imminent global cooling in the early 70s, but it was largely media-driven, had little support in the scientific community, and never became terribly mainstream.

DanBC 13y ago
My local museum had dioramas about the coming ice age. It was science of its time - we've spent a lot more time and money on climate science since then. We have much more powerful computers (What's a modern smartphone like compared to the total world computing power in 1975?). It is unfortunate that denialists use it to argue against ACC but don't make the mistake of saying that "the ice age was never serious" - it was.

JulianMorrison 13y ago

Both right. We were heading for an ice age. Not any more.

drharris 13y ago
So we fixed it?
- JulianMorrison 13y ago
  In the sense that setting you on fire is a fix for hypothermia.

czr80 13y ago

Wikipedia, first hit on Google: "Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions." But this is so easy to find that I suspect the details don't really matter to you. Perhaps another wikipedia article might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

od2m 13y ago
Revisionist history much?