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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
In the 1970s, they tried to tell us the world was getting colder and we would all freeze to death.
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Who's "they?" Not the scientists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0...8FA33&index=37
An excellent paper in the American Meteorological Society (2008)
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...2008BAMS2370.1
A couple highlights:
"One way to determine what scientists think is to ask them. This was actually done in 1977 following the severe 1976/77 winter in the eastern United States. "Collectively," the 24 eminent climatologists responding to the survey "tended to anticipate a slight global warming rather than a cooling" (National Defense University Research Directorate 1978)."
A survey was done on literature published in the '70s. The survey looked for "papers projecting climate change on, or even just discussing an aspect of climate forcing relevant to, time scales from decades to a century." It found 71 papers. "The survey identified only 7 articles indicating cooling compared to 44 indicating warming." The other 20 were neutral. Six times as many scientists in the '70s were predicting warming versus cooling.