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by whb07 1805 days ago
“Considering climate change”:

Ask yourself what type of answer you’d have gotten in 1970s when the climate change fear at the time was that we’d all be freezing.

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> An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming. A review of the literature suggests that, on the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking as being one of the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bam...