Dave Balderstone writes:

In article , Tom
Terrific wrote:

In article ,
says...
(Doug Miller) writes:

In article , D Smith
wrote:

Well, increased extremes in temperature and precipitation has been one
of the predictions. I heard that being said back in the 1970s.

Horsepuckey. Back in the 1970s, the 'panic du jour' was global COOLING.


Thanks for confirming that your knowledge is based on nothing more than
media speculation, which DID do write-ups on the subject in the 1970s.

...but that wasn't what the science was telling us. If you think that
you have a SCIENTIFIC reference for claims of global cooling in the 1970s,
feel free to go to the following web page:

http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/

and tell William about it. He'd be interested in knowing about it.

The problem is that the very same people who tried to choreograph our
collective guilt trip in the 70's over global cooling are now trying
to do the same thing with global warming. Surely you can understand
the cynicism. Indeed, the global cooling zealots were actually
putting their money where their mouths were WRT energy conservation
rather than consuming 20x the amount of energy that the average
American uses in a year like the head global warming disciple does
today. Which movement had more credibility?

Does anyone have a list of the people, scientists, journalists and
politicians, who were screaming about cooling 30 years ago? I wonder
what overlap there is...


How much would you expect there to be? 30 years is a long time in any
of these diciplines, and few people remain at the top for that long. Many
of the key scientists today were probably in high school or undergraduates
in the 1970s. Many of the key scientists from the 1970s are probably
slowly returning a lifetime of accumulated carbon back into the ecosystem
now.

If you haven't already got a copy of "the list", then it probably means
they won't let you into the club...