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Originally Posted by lakefront
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Originally Posted by H2O_Doc
There are no informed climate experts that fail to recognize the very serious threat that climate change poses. We will, in the not too distant future, have doubled the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These are gases whose warming properties are very well known and measures. Of course that's going to warm the planet and, again, we've known that for more than a century.
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Gosh, I remember roughly 30 years ago or so that the "experts" were saying the emissions from cars, factories, etc were creating a layer of gasses around the Earth that would block the sun's rays and create a new Ice Age. Funny that now its the complete opposite....  |
There was NEVER anything close to a consensus opinion that aerosols would offset warming and induce an ice age. Never. There were pop-science articles that talked about global cooling from aerosols, but all through that period the recognition that climate warming was real and a threat.
Now, what we did find out is that in some regions, those aerosols did actually reduce and mask some of the warming, but beyond that, the global cooling talk was media hyperbole designed to sell advertising.