The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
  http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Soren,

Watch the clip I provided. It was a media mountain out of a molehill, mostly based on incomplete quotes from the National Academy of Sciences Report of 1975 and the misquoted paper we discussed earlier that was co-authored by Stephen Schneider.

So to summarise, in the 1970s, there was a book in the popular press, a few articles in popular magazines, and a small amount of scientific speculation based on the recently discovered glacial cycles and the recent slight cooling trend from air pollution blocking the sunlight and changes in Solar irradiance.

I'm amazed that nobody has come up with the name of the book yet. What kind of confusionalists do they have on this forum anyway? The Light Weight Variety I'd say. I'll give you a hint : TLS.

William Connolly has a lot more time on his hands than I do(must be the cold weather or something). He has actually collected everything that was ever written on the subject.

http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/

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Seems a fair assessment of the knowledge of today too.  

hey BOZO still lacking courage I see... sniping from the rear as usual...

Come on buddy  QUOTE ME!

No its the truth...  

You already denied any of it ever happened Skippy 

More misrepresentation by denialists, do they never tire of their endless pursuit to promote misinformation?

As I said Grendel, ask aussies over 50, who were old enough to remember the period, and see what significance they put on the Ice Age stories.

I never said that there were not stories like this going around, but that they were never considered as "SIGNIFICANT".

The simple truth is that, exactly like skippy said, denialists are trying to rewrite history.
They are trying to validate their argument that climate change hysteria is due to a media fascination, and has been going on forever.

They point to topics that gained some minor interest in the past, and then attempt to use that fact to diminish the importance of what is happening today, as if this is just another case of the media building something up into more than it actually is.

Even if we were to use their media attention theory, as a barometer of the importance of the issue, then I would venture that on a line by line, or story by story basis, the past events, pale into significance compared to what we see today.

Alternately, we could just do what muso does, and stick to the science, and not get bogged down in sensasionalist hyperbole from the mass media, and if we do, we once more see that past events pale into insignificance compared to what we see today.

SO, the denialist camp, promoting past media stories as evidence of a pattern which proves that the current situation is just another minor crisis, like so many before, does not balance out, because previous scenarios were never this grave, and the understanding amongst, and agreement from, scientists was never so united in addressing a single issue as our current climate change crisis is.

What we are facing is unprecedented, and everyone, but the doggedly stubborn denialists accept that fact, and like all flat earthers, they will never allow reason or facts to sway them from their convictions.

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Looks like denial, reads like denial, smells like denial...  back to the bottom of the compost bin with you Skippy

Well I know that at least muso is smart enough not to expect anything but evasion, with the odd insult chucked in, for a response to what seems a pretty straight forward question.

However, once more, The Simpsons provide an answer to lifes big questions, like whose fault is it anyway?

Those damn Scienticians of course. lol

Good luck with your quest for a straight answer, but like the pope, grendel has this mystical ability for infallibility, even when openly defending contradictory positions.
Apparently it is not only god, who moves in mysterious ways.
The back pedalling and side stepping would do a ballerina proud, in fact I think Grendel may have gone for his tutu now.