Posted: Aug 15, 2011 4:41 am
johnbrandt wrote:
I guess that means it's true...global warming is the only area of prediction and science that literally no dissent is allowed or tolerated, and heaven forbid you should actually dig up old articles which remind people of what was once held as gospel truth.
From the video, i will even write it out word for word:
"A review published in the bulletin of the American Meteorological Society looked at the scientific literature rather than the popular press. 3 climatologists searched scientific journals between 1965 and 1979, and yes... They found 7 predicting not an Ice-Age, but global cooling.
The only problem is they found 44 in predicting global warming, even though the world was cooling in the 1970's and had been for 3 decades. Even so, 6 times as many climatologists predicted that the danger was global warming, not global cooling.
The reason is simple. By this time the mechanism of global warming was understood, the probable trigger for ice ages was beginning to be understood and the reason for global cooling was reasonably well understood. Climatologists suspected, as we now know, that it was caused by pollution mostly particulates and aerosols, which blocked sunlight. Even with all the uncertainty the majority of climatologists predicted that global warming, caused by carbon dioxide would eventually overwhelm any global cooling caused by pollution."
This ice-age argument is long dead.