NCDC Scientist - 1970s Global Cooling Consensus "An Enduring Popular Myth" - AFP

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Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday.

"An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting 'global cooling' and an 'imminent' ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming," Peterson said in the report, co-authored by William Connolly of the British Antarctic Survey and John Fleck of The Albuquerque Journal.

The study, which will be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, said a review of the literature suggests that greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_Global_cooling_a_1970s_myth_999.html

[Redbear]

1. Ive heard this myth about 100 times.

Good to have factual data that it is a myth.

[islandmkl]

2. WHAT?...the RW deniers have their facts wrong...

or do they just have the numbers backwards? These guys must have legal pads full of notes of all their lies just to keep them straight...Rush probably wants that Apple to work for him to keep his database of lies and misinformation at his fingertips..

[Viking12]

3. More from USA Today

The supposed "global cooling" consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can't make up their minds — is a myth, according to a survey of the scientific literature of the era.
The '70s was an unusually cold decade. Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and National Geographic published articles at the time speculating on the causes of the unusual cold and about the possibility of a new ice age.

But Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends.

The study reports, "There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age.

"A review of the literature suggests that, to the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking about the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales."


http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-02-20-global-cooling_N.htm

This began as a collaborative online project coordinated by William Connolly of the British Antarctic Survey.

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