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Re:Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise... by ceejayoz on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:41AM (#21312782)
> Anyone remember the global cooling scare?

Largely a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

"Some press reports in the 1970s speculated about continued cooling; these did not accurately reflect the scientific literature of the time, which was generally more concerned with warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect."

> Or the nuclear war scare?

Still scary.

> Or the acid rain scare?

Acid rain was mitigated via extensive, global efforts to regulate the pollution emissions that caused it.

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Re:Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise... by zorak8me on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:43AM (#21312801)
> Acid rain was mitigated via extensive, global efforts to regulate the pollution emissions that caused it.

Excellent point. Big problems are solvable with the right level of effort.

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Re:Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise... by ceejayoz on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:45AM (#21312832)
The arguments you're making - "climate change industry profiting! global cooling! scaremongering!" - tend to be deployed to prevent that effort.

It is, for example, rather curious to focus on "multi-billion dollar" climate science but not to count the multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel industry as an interested party.

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Re:Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise... by raarts on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:58PM (#21329315)
I am 59. I do remember the cooling scare. It was a thing and I did a project on it in elementary school. Just sayin'.
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Re:Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise... by hanniabu on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:02AM (#21313049)
> Acid rain was mitigated via extensive

Likely story to try and hide being wrong when the scientists have so much money on the lines and can't risk giving up the BILLIONS they're making and getting rich/profiting off of. I've never received acid burns from the rain!

/s

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