Does anyone born before the 80s remember the theory of Global Ice age? Recently I keep hearing people talk about how people were talking about global ice age. As far as I know, Environmentalist supported the green house effect instead and talked about how the Antartica was melting back inthe 70%26#039;s . Is my impression of what the 70%26#039;s incorrect or that these are just kids pulling something esoteric to disprove the green house effect. If your under 40 please state your age , because I rather get my information from someone who lived through it.

So basically this whole %26#039;scientists predicted global cooling%26#039; crap we keep hearing from the %26#039;skeptics%26#039; and deniers is yet another myth, based on one article in Newsweek, which is not even a scientific journal.

Of course, deniers always seem to put more credence in what the media says than what scientific journals say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cool...

that is about as serious as the ice age predictions ever got as far as i know.
%26quot;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. There were no daily headlines. There was no avalanche of scientific articles. There were no United Nations treaties or commissions. No G8 summits on the dangers and possible solutions. No institutional pronouncements. You could find broader %26quot;consensus%26quot; on a coming alien invasion.%26quot; http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/0... The Cold Truth about Global Warming by Joseph Romm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_peti... dispells the myth about 17,000 scientists who are skeptics on AGW

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfact...

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

But there are articles going back a hundred years that talk about heating and cooling.

Global cooling is far more frightening than warming, because crops fail, people freeze, heating costs go up, etc. And it seems inevitable if past cycles continue through into the future.

The only problem is that cooling is not blamed on mankind. That is why warming got so much attention.

Yes it%26#039;s true. We were taught in school that the scientists thought that the Earth was entering into another ice age.

No one freaked or panicked over it. It was just nature and we would deal with it.

%26quot;Global Warming%26quot; is a 1990%26#039;s thing.

From what i%26#039;ve heard, there were some papers published on global cooling, but the majority were ivestigating warming.

Bear in mind that was over 30 years ago, technology has advanced greatly since then.