I take the articles
about global cooling in the 70's to indicate that it was, in fact, cooling in the 60's and 70's.
It looks suspiciously like the same list of ideas that Time magazine demanded in June 1974 with its cover
story about Global Cooling.
There were climate scientists who
speculated about global cooling in the seventies and there were journalists who wrote articles about the prospect of coming ice ages.
Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry
about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.
In the 1970s alarmists were crying
wolf about global cooling, with magazines like Time worrying about the effect of colder temperatures on agricultural.
(By the way, for those of you who already
know about global cooling / dimming and aerosols, I will just say for now that these effects can not be making the blue line go down because the IPCC considers these anthropogenic effects, and therefore in the pink band.
Increased «dramatically» means rising from 330 ppm (0.030 % of the atmosphere) in 1975, when scientists were concerned
about global cooling, to about 400 ppm (0.040 %) today.
INTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global warming «denial,» editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story
about global cooling, and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting.
«'' This makes me wonder if the temperature dip in the 1970 ′ s where everyone was worried
about global cooling wasn't partially driven by atmospheric aerosols.»
In the 1970's, when we were worried
about global cooling, some climatologists seriously suggested covering the polar caps with soot in order to melt the ice!
He misstates the role of aerosols in global warming (confusing it with their role in hurting the ozone layer), talks
about global cooling, and more.