What Alph says is true, but it was very close to the truth. Look at this quote propagated by supposedly credible scientists of the time.
Life magazine of January 30, 1970, stated: “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support . . . predictions” such as: “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution,” and “increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will affect earth’s temperature, leading to mass flooding or a new ice age.”
Live by the sword, die by the sword. You greenies think you can change history by your shallow words, you got another think a coming.
In the cold weather 1970s, the theory was announced that unless we gave up our wanton industrial prosperity a man-made ice age would punish us. The weather changed. In the warm weather 1980s, the theory was announced that unless we gave up our wanton industrial prosperity a man-made global warming would punish us. Do you see a pattern here? We are now a third of a century later. We gave nothing up and yet are not taking boat tours of coastal skyscrapers. Does anything more need to be said?
Oh, yes. If these claims were exaggerations with no connection to reputable scientific climatology, the time for such a denouncement was THEN.
The languid interest of climatologists and environmentalists in Iron fertilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertil...
(Short version: iron is not very soluble in ocean water and is commonly a deficient nutrient there. Adding iron causes microscopic plants to multiply. The plants absorb carbon and a significant number sink, sequestering the carbon on the ocean floor. Nor is this just theory. Every part has been observed as natural processes or as experimental results. The overall method has been observed both ways.)
Makes it abundantly clear a cheap, easy and quick method of solving the problem does not interest them.
And what do any of these "predictions" have to do with the temperature record?
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp...
They're a bunch of fake predictions from a cartoon. Do you get all your science from the funny papers?
not likly since none of them came from scientists
none of these are actual quotes by climate scientists.
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/great-scientific-agw-predictions.html
