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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by throwawayboise on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:20PM (#27306997)
Yep, back in the 1970s it was the coming ice age, and it was also the "population bomb." If neither of those happened, we were going to have a global thermonuclear war. Doom-and-gloomers will always find reasons to preach doom and gloom.
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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by webmaven on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:47PM (#27308301)
> Yep, back in the 1970s it was the coming ice age,

No. That was an artifact of hype in the mainstream press. If you look at the research being published at the time, the consensus was fairly consistently for warming scenarios (by a factor of 2:1 during the most cooling-friendly years):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

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