Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news
by anderspitman on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:02PM
(#13293907)
The first article you linked seems to indicate that most scientists in peer reviewed papers were actually predicting warming, not cooling (42 papers vs 7 papers). Also, I didn't read it carefully but I did not see anything mentioning the government claiming these things.
However, I think it's still an important point that climate change skeptics CLAIM to have been told these these in the 70s, and use it as an important part of their argument.
Really? I do: https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970...
> Again, I just don't recall ever hearing this.
I think he's referring to either the "acid rain/forest die-off: http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac...
or the rainforest (this article contains a bunch of environmental scares that didn't happen): http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac...
Or maybe the forest fire commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MW0Bi7L4
Or maybe conflating them to make a point.