On May 22, 3:14 pm, "ozonb" wrote:
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:30 +1000, ozonb wrote:

The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, amidst hysteria
about the dangers of a new ice age.

Those damn scientists! When will they ever learn heh?

Corporate sponsored think-tanks and conservative journos know best.

So Reid Bryson is not a scientist then?

With emphasis on the "a"....

There was no "Global Cooling" Hysteria in 1970P: You're simply
recycling Exxon-funded lies, as usual.

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ROTFLMAO
So these scientists are a figment of the imagination then?

You snipped the bit that disproves your lies, so it is clear that your
imagination does indeed have a large part in your non-sensical
gibberish:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/clim...008-02-20-glob...

"The supposed "global cooling" consensus among scientists in the 1970s
— frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that
climatologists can't make up their minds — is a myth, according to a
survey of the scientific literature of the era."

"Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens
of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that
only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming.
Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate
trends.

The study reports, "There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s
that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age.

"A review of the literature suggests that, to the contrary, greenhouse
warming even then dominated scientists' thinking about the most
important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales.""
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NO MYTH!

The graph (Figure1) clearly shows that the number of global cooling papers exceeded
the
number of global warming papers in 1971, and that combined neutral and cooling
papers far
exceeded warming papers in 1967, 1972, 1973, and 1974.

I presume that these years were the peak of global cooling hysteria!!

Also interesting is that there were no global warming papers in 1966, 1968, and
1973.

Also note that global cooling and global warming were neck and neck in 1967.

And, of course, the number of global cooling papers would come down as natural
global
warming started in the late 1970's.

So there was global cooling hysteria amongst scientists around 1971!

http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/131047.pdf

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

Again you look only at the pictures, like a little boy with his
father's Playboy.

The caption: "In
no year were there more global cooling papers than global warming."- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

Dumb ****s can't even read their own graph.

Actually it's their table that lists the two papers. The graph was
right. Did you read the paper? It's actually quiter interesting as it
summarises the process by which those studying climate from both
perspectives (the apparent contemporary cooling and the intuitive
warming) eventually developed the now established position.

More broadly though, the record refutes the claim that there was
hysteria about ice ages or global cooling amongst scientists.
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And how does the graph or anything else refute this?


The article in which the graph and the table appear refutes this. Two
papers in 1971 about *possible* cooling doesn't suggest hysteria.
Instead there was a calm and evidence-based discussion of the trends
in the data and what this could mean and that provoked more research,
especially as fears over the food supply were widespread at government
level -- by 1972 the USSR had had a succession of failed harvests and
US Sec of Agriculture, Earl Butz negotiated some serious corn sales --
30 million tons IIRC to the USSR and this in turn pushed corn prices
up at a time when people were speculating if crop failure would be the
order of the day. This lent speculation about the possible importance
of cooling a lot of gravitas in the popular press but the scientists
remained calm.

One suspects this hysteria was allowed to run by the US government as
Nixon was running for re-election and wanted to secure the support of
mid-western farmers against McGovern while proposing to abandon the
old new deal era "Ever Normal Granary system. Talk of food shortages
made farmers in Iowa look with equanimity on the abandonment of a
system that had underpinned prices of corn but prevented large
increases in periods of where there was a sellers' market.

Fran