Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news
by DanBC on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:09PM
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> > 1. Many of us lived through the 1960s and 1970s, when the government and scientists claimed we were heading into an ice age. Didn't happen.
> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. You're going to have to provide examples of this to bring me into this tent.
(I believe climate change is real, is happening, and is caused by human activity).
It's weird that people say warnings about ice ages were non existent, because they really weren't.
We can talk about whether they were taken seriously by relevant scientists, or if they were just pop-sci nonsense, but we can't say they didn't exist.
> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. You're going to have to provide examples of this to bring me into this tent.
(I believe climate change is real, is happening, and is caused by human activity).
It's weird that people say warnings about ice ages were non existent, because they really weren't.
We can talk about whether they were taken seriously by relevant scientists, or if they were just pop-sci nonsense, but we can't say they didn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
I guess I'm responding in particular to your words:
> and I do not recall ever hearing this.
when perhaps I should be reading
> and I do not recall ever hearing this from scientists.