I am sick to death of blatant lies from denialists, they are flat out wrongheaded.
The one about the global cooling hysteria from 40 years ago is just utter BULLSH1T.
I was environmentally and politically aware 40 yeaars ago, and global cooling was NEVER an issue, got it?

That does not mean some few people may not have spoken about it, but that nobody ever considered it a problem that required the attention of governments and the worldwide community, like we see now with Global Warming, and to compare the two as being even remotely similiar is misrepresenting the reality of what happened then, and what is happening now.
But misrepresentation are what these eejits do best.

mozzaok wrote on Jul 12^th, 2009 at 10:38am:


Mozz is right, my memory of those years are very long summers, so to use the same analogy as the confusionalists use today, it was hot and sunny in those days, so global cooling is just a confusionalist beat up.

Exactly.

Don't take our word for it...
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Now we have just gone through a warming trend...  oh dear...

Seems you and Skippy have faulty memories Mozz... ok you were a Hippy then, that explains you at least.

Grendel wrote on Jul 12^th, 2009 at 11:13am:


Haha - it's been a while since you brought up this particular gem. I wondered when we'd see it come through the recycler again.

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….

But 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.....
http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/22/another-denier-talking-point-global-coolin...


You'll love this clip, if only for the music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTw0KneNLg

For the faithful, don't watch that - the facts will just upset you. See my disclaimer below------v   

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As if   someone from the National Climatic Data Center would know more about climate than boofy, please muso, show some respect for the boofster.

Next thing you'll be telling us that the National Climatic Data center collects data on such things.

Grendel wrote on Jul 12^th, 2009 at 1:50pm:


Abuse away boofy, I'm used to it from the uninformed .

Love your disclaimer muso, very apt. lmbfao

And for Grendel, the whole point of my addressing the lies told about the perception of Global Cooling from the '70s as a critical issue that the world need address is just plain untrue.

It was not even something that came to the attention of the aussie media at the time, and if you asked any aussies in the 50 or over group what they remember of the Global Cooling Crisis, there response would be , WHAT??
Even if a very few who were more familiar with US media of the time would remember it, it would be as only a minor story that did not gain much attention from the people, or governments of the period, and no mass movements sprang from the information.

So why do we bring it up?
We don't, DENIALISTS do.
Why?
Because they seek to create the belief that hysterical speculation is the norm for scientists, and a past theory which is proved wrong will therefore reduce the credibility of all scientists in general, and climate scientists in particular.

Some commentators lurch from one doomsday scenario to the next, and media always give them at least some credence, but never in my lifetime have we seen a coming together of disparate groups from all parts of the globe, and all sections of the community, to address an issue more comprehensively reviewed than this issue of Global Warming.
We have never seen the level of cooperation and committment by governments on any other issue.
We have never seen greater scientific concensus.

But we still have spoilers who "know" in their hearts, that it is all a giant conspiracy to enrich scientific researchers by creating a cooperative cabal of liiars on a level never known before.
Of course, that makes much more sense.

One of the forums other confusionalists said the same thing yesterday maybe boof is just copying them.

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Its my bet that he is already in his togs on the diving board.