The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus
Particular note should be paid to the discussion of Rasool and Schneider (1971).
Thanks for that link - - VERY interesting! I especially enjoyed the first “blue block” synopsis. That page was chock full of great lines. What is most amazing is that back then (and I was in college in the mid ‘70s, remember the hoopla quite clearly) there was no “new” media to combat the forces of global socialism that were pushing the “global cooling” myth like we have in place today, and which is in the process of debunking the “global warming” myth.
Perhaps the scientists of the time simply had more integrity? Perhaps the politicization of granting and funding scientific studies was not as corrupt (and corrupting) as it is today? Whatever the case, it is amazing how little things change over the decades, isn’t it? There’s always a “crisis” that needs to be “studied” (and that takes lots of funds and grants, naturally). Also (naturally), the press always loves a good crisis, and (even more naturally) so does big government.
Meet the new alarmists, same as the old alarmists.
FRgards,
LH