Global Cooling Options

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/...on_warming.html

While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling. Science magazine warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."


Gosh, and we were worried about global warming

[jue]

im a bit lost >_>
First everyones talking about global warming?
and now its global cooling o.O?

[NoSex]

im a bit lost >_>
First everyones talking about global warming?
and now its global cooling o.O?

No, it was Global Cooling, now it is Global Warming. Global Cooling is something your parents might remember, it was the same kind of spawned global hysteria as Global Warming. During the entirerity of the 1970's it was exstensively reported in the media that scientists were unanimous on the fact that the world was rapidly moving towards an ice age. This was supported by numerous sources of data, not much unlike the sources of data being cited to support global warming. Now, today, we are all afraid of global warming. If our fears of global warming were not justified, how can we be sure that our fears of global warming are?

Alot of people seemed to miss the point of this thread.

Alot of what we are told about global warming just isn't true. There is alot of stuff that we simply just do not know about climitology and exactly how our world works. The fear of global warming is a popular one though. It's a sensational story. If you tell someone the world is ending, it will make headlines. But, if you said everything was just A-O-K, you might not even find someone to listen to you. The truth behind the matter is that we can not even be sure that humans have much of any influence at all in relation to global climate. And, even if we do indeed have an influence, we can not be sure of how strong exactly that influence may be. Global climate change, whether it be cooling or warming, seems to be a very natural occurance. And, I do believe global warming happening is happening; Just not the way we are told it is happening or at the degree we are led to believe it to be happening. How terrified should we all be of a single degree increase in temperature over a century?