[12:53p] im1964 : Jon Sr.....and ...notice...in late 1970's into 80's .....climatologists were saying earth heading for another Ice Age ???
[12:54p] Jon_Sr : they were wrong, im... and those who said it were the minority
[12:56p] im1964 : lilbunnie...oh I know...funny how same climatologists looking at data in 1980's warned about ice age...then...flipped in Al Gore era to cry global warming
[01:00p] Jon_Sr : im... who were these climatologists predicting an ice age in the 1980's?
[01:00p] Jon_Sr : im... what are your sources?
[01:03p] im1964 : https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
From his own “source”:
Ice age predicted in the 70s
"[M]any publications now claiming the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster said the same about an impending ice age – just 30 years ago. Several major ones, including The New York Times, Time magazine and Newsweek, have reported on three or even four different climate shifts since 1895." (Fire and Ice)
In the thirty years leading up to the 1970s, available temperature recordings suggested that there was a cooling trend. As a result some scientists suggested that the current inter-glacial period could rapidly draw to a close, which might result in the Earth plunging into a new ice age over the next few centuries. This idea could have been reinforced by the knowledge that the smog that climatologists call ‘aerosols’ – emitted by human activities into the atmosphere – also caused cooling. In fact, as temperature recording has improved in coverage, it’s become apparent that the cooling trend was most pronounced in northern land areas and that global temperature trends were in fact relatively steady during the period prior to 1970.
At the same time as some scientists were suggesting we might be facing another ice age, a greater number published contradicting studies. Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming – warming that would exert a much greater influence on global temperature than any possible natural or human-caused cooling effects.
By 1980 the predictions about ice ages had ceased, due to the overwhelming evidence contained in an increasing number of reports that warned of global warming. Unfortunately, the small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember.
Seriously, does im1964 lack reading comprehension or did he even read his “source”? A chart from his own “proof” indicates that climatologists predicting an ice age were the minority… and totally wrong.
It reminds me of the time that JP Sultan of Swing declared that shifting magnetic poles affected climate change, citing an article from NASA that said just the opposite.
Can Neanderskulls comprehend anything?