Climate Denial Crock of the Week/Climate Deniers Love the 70s! - The Remix!

[greenman3610]

Run time: 09:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M   Posted on YouTube: December 14, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 15, 2009 By DU Member: greenman3610 Views on DU: 599

 
Everyone has a favorite decade, and for Climate deniers, that decade has got to be, the 70s.
Yes, the decade of disco, kung fu, and watergate

Because in the 70's, Deniers will tell you, All climate scientists believed an ice age was coming. Those crazy climate scientists! Why can't they make up their minds?

But is that really true?
Maybe a little historical perspective is in order.
This remix is re-edited, includes better sound, and new film clips. Definitely a Christmas must-see for Uncle Dittohead and Aunt Teabag!

[MrObama]

1. greenman3610, you are awsome, love your youtube channel :-)

K&R

[MrObama]

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[struggle4progress]

3. Umm .. in the 1970s, hardly anybody believed "an ice age was coming" -- what was

unclear was the degree of nonlinearity in the response of climate to various variables. Somebody back then pointed out that the models available couldn't really rule out the possibility that a short-term rise in temperature could result in changes in global circulation and global albedo, that might eventually produce a new ice age. And so the corporate media had a field day warning us of a new ice age. It was highly counter-intuitive; most people thought it was nonsense; and in a way it was abstractly true (as far as it went, which wasn't very far). The most rational assumption, since the time of Arrhenius around 1900, of course, has been: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and we produce a lot of it, so we might reasonably expect global warming. Current models indicate Arrhenius was right