This is insane!
Posted by Michael on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
From United Press International:
“A U.S. climatologist said there was no consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed for a new ice age. Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday… The study, which will be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, said a review of the literature suggests that greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists’ thinking.
This is insane. It makes me wonder if even back in the 70s, certain industry magnates were manipulating science — and exaggerating the “purveyors of global cooling…” Anybody know anything about that? All conspiracy theories welcome here!
Tags: 1970s, global cooling, global warming, science
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Scientists tend to frame their arguments carefully, and view “marketing your ideas” with distaste; industry cherry-picks the things they want to attend to, and view marketing as a business tool. This has led to much confusion, to say the least.