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Climate Alarmism in the 1970's

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Yup. Back then it was the coming Ice Age, now its.... global warming. :2razz:
 
One guy wrote an article in the 70s it was wrong, therefore PoS knows more about climate science than do tens of thousands of people who devoted their careers to it around the world.

Passersby were amazed by the amount of fail.
 
Mr Person said:
One guy wrote an article in the 70s it was wrong, therefore PoS knows more about climate science than do tens of thousands of people who devoted their careers to it around the world.

Passersby were amazed by the amount of fail.
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Argument from authority - Wikipedia

Passersbys unable to think for themselves engages in their usual lefty partisanship proving that they are just sheep.
 
Mr Person said:
One guy wrote an article in the 70s it was wrong, therefore PoS knows more about climate science than do tens of thousands of people who devoted their careers to it around the world.

Passersby were amazed by the amount of fail.
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Caution: rubbernecking can cause wrecks.
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PoS said:
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Yup. Back then it was the coming Ice Age, now its.... global warming. :2razz:
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It's still climate change and the answer is still global income redistribution with more government power and expense. The definition of the problem may have morphed a bit but the proposed solution remains the same.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It's still climate change and the answer is still global income redistribution with more government power and expense. The definition of the problem may have morphed a bit but the proposed solution remains the same.
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Pretty much. The socialists failed to destroy mixed market capitalism during the Cold War, so now theyve switched tactics to apocalyptic predictions, and the left is buying into it.
 
PoS said:
Pretty much. The socialists failed to destroy mixed market capitalism during the Cold War, so now theyve switched tactics to apocalyptic predictions, and the left is buying into it.
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The left was already (always?) in favor of more government power and expense - they just needed more reasons (excuses?) to get others (independents?) on board. Government income/wealth redistribution schemes are popular in a democracy -so long as fewer voters are asked to fund those schemes than are being promised "free" benefits from them. Since progressive income taxation is already in place (with even more progessive wealth taxation on the way?) it is getting easier to get voter approval for more "share the wealth" programs (like UHC, "free" college and the GND).
 
[h=2]Before 1960s-’70s Global Cooling Was Erased, It Caused Droughts, Crop Failures, Glacier Advance, Ice Age Threats[/h]By Kenneth Richard on 27. November 2017
Changing Scientific Consensus 1970s: Global Cooling A Serious Threat Today: Global Cooling Never Happened Until the mid-1980s, it was widely accepted in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that there was an abrupt global cooling trend between the 1940s and 1970s. The amplitude of the climate change amounted to more than -0.5°C of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, as […]
 
[h=2]285 Papers 70s Cooling 1[/h]Beginning in 2003, software engineer William Connolley quietly removed the highly inconvenient references to the global cooling scare of the 1970s from Wikipedia, the world’s most influential and accessed informational source. It had to be done. Too many skeptics were (correctly) pointing out that the scientific “consensus” during the 1960s and 1970s was that the […]
 
[h=2]285 Papers 70s Cooling 2[/h]PART 2 PART 1 HERE PART 3 HERE —– 96. Paterson, 1977 Figure 4a shows 10-yr mean [temperature] values from AD 1200 to present [Arctic Canada]. Prominent features are brief warm periods with peaks at 1240 and 1380, cold peaks at 1430, 1520, and 1560, the ‘Little Ice Age’ continuously cold from 1680 to 1730 […]
 
[h=2]285 Papers 70s Cooling 3[/h]PART 3 PART 1 HERE PART 2 HERE 206. Dyson, 1977 The magnitude of this negative feed-back effect of atmospheric CO2 upon itself depends on many ecological interactions which have yet to be disentangled. The effect could be negligibly small, or it could be as large as 3 x 109 tons of carbon per yr. […]
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The left was already (always?) in favor of more government power and expense - they just needed more reasons (excuses?) to get others (independents?) on board. Government income/wealth redistribution schemes are popular in a democracy -so long as fewer voters are asked to fund those schemes than are being promised "free" benefits from them. Since progressive income taxation is already in place (with even more progessive wealth taxation on the way?) it is getting easier to get voter approval for more "share the wealth" programs (like UHC, "free" college and the GND).
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Well it wasnt until a few years ago that the Democrats suddenly did a 90 degree turn and completely embraced socialist concepts like UWG, massive taxation of the rich and the breaking up of successful companies, all in the name of AGW. They were more moderate in the past. Not anymore.
 
Mr Person said:
One guy wrote an article in the 70s it was wrong, therefore PoS knows more about climate science than do tens of thousands of people who devoted their careers to it around the world.

Passersby were amazed by the amount of fail.
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It is amazing how stupid this is. I can name 200 respected scientific organizations that support AGW.....not one tiny article in a newspaper
 
We should not forget that global cooling was a very real concern in the 1970's
In 1975 the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ,UNITED STATES COMMITTEE FOR THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PROGRAM,
and the National Research Council, issued their report.
Full text of "Understanding climatic change"
It is not primarily the advance of a major ice
sheet over our farms and cities that we must fear, devastating as this
would be, for such changes take thousands of years to evolve. Rather,
it is persistent changes of the temperature and rainfall in areas com-
mitted to agricultural use, changes in the frost content of Canadian and
Siberian soils, and changes of ocean temperature in areas of high nutri-
ent production, for example, that are of more immediate concern.
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The onset of this climatic decline could be several thousand years in the future,
although there is a finite probability that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the
earth within the next hundred years.
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Global cooling in the 1970's was a very real concern!
 
Notice that most of the "imminent ice age" talk comes from journalists, and not scientists.
 
Deuce said:
Notice that most of the "imminent ice age" talk comes from journalists, and not scientists.
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And here are the AGW scientists of today:

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PoS said:
And here are the AGW scientists of today:
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These are not scientists, I'm not sure why you're using them to inform you on science.

Shall I attribute "climate change is impossible because god exists" to be the right wing source of information?
 
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