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Can you point to the part of the OP that says the sky is falling or any such thing? He linked to a report. If you have a beef with the report and the data presented, please don't let us stop you.
I know you were responding to anther poster, but rest assured many a report has been wrong over the years and decades. The now infamous hockey slick model or even going back to a prediction of the coming ace age, this despite knowledgeable historians and scientists saying we are in/entering an interglacial period;
Considering they last for at least about 10,000 years, comments like 95% of the Arctics thick ice is shrunk or gone is absurd. Based on what figure, measured from what period of time.
Those type of comments seem designed to try and shock people, yet they have the reverse effect on many people, hence the poster saying not another "the sky is falling" thread.
The global cooling scare came about because the most credible global temperature atmospheric research groups...at the time...said so
That's a myth
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1974 Time magazine article Another Ice Age? painted a similarly bleak picture:
"When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
Peer-Reviewed Literature
However, these are media articles, not scientific studies. A survey of peer reviewed scientific papers from 1965 to 1979 show that few papers predicted global cooling (7 in total). Significantly more papers (42 in total) predicted global warming (Peterson 2008). The large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than 1970s scientists predicting cooling, the opposite is the case.
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