{"id":12201,"date":"2010-11-29T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2010-11-29T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:00:09","slug":"global-cooling-myth-dies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/global-cooling-myth-dies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Cooling Myth Dies Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe Romm, PhD, of Climate Progress recently shared the climate science video from 1956<\/strong><\/a> I shared on here earlier today. But in addition to this great video, he shared some other studies debunking the climate science myth of global cooling, which I thought were worth putting in a separate post.<\/p>\n

Dr Romm reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I still recommend an\u00a0excellent review article<\/a> in the\u00a0Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em> (BAMS) by Thomas Peterson, William Connolley, and John Fleck, which concluded:<\/p>\n

There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0BAMS<\/em> piece examines the scientific origins of the myth, the popular media of the 1970s who got the story slightly wrong, the deniers\/delayers who perpetuate the myth today, and, most importantly, what real scientists actually said in real peer-reviewed journals at the time. Their literature survey, the most comprehensive ever done on the subject, found:<\/p>\n

The survey identified only 7 articles indicating cooling compared to 44 indicating warming. Those seven cooling articles garnered just 12% of the citations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The authors put together this figure on \u201cthe number of papers classified as predicting, implying, or providing supporting evidence for future global cooling, warming, and neutral categories\u201d:<\/p>\n

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The article ends with a powerful discussion of what the National Research Council concluded in its 1979 review of the science:<\/p>\n

In July 1979 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Jule Charney, one of the pioneers of climate modeling, brought together a panel of experts under the U.S. National Research Council to sort out the state of the science. The panel\u2019s work has become iconic as a foundation for the enterprise of climate change study that followed (Somerville et al. 2007). Such reports are a traditional approach within the United States for eliciting expert views on scientific questions of political and public policy importance (Weart 2003).<\/p>\n

In this case,\u00a0the panel concluded that the potential damage from greenhouse gases was real and should not be ignored. The potential for cooling, the threat of aerosols, or the possibility of an ice age shows up nowhere in the report. Warming from doubled CO2 of 1.5\u00b0\u20134.5\u00b0C was possible<\/strong>, the panel reported. While there were huge uncertainties, Verner Suomi, chairman of the National Research Council\u2019s Climate Research Board, wrote in the report\u2019s foreword that he believed there was enough evidence to support action: \u201cA wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late<\/strong>\u201d (Charney et al. 1979).\u00a0Clearly, if a national report in the 1970s advocates urgent action to address global warming, then the scientific consensus of the 1970s was not global cooling<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And, to complete the circle, nearly a quarter century before then,\u00a0Popular Mechanics<\/em><\/a> warned us:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually,\u00a0Time<\/em> magazine reported on Plass\u2019s work in May 1953, in an article titled \u201cInvisible Blanket<\/a>,\u201d which ends \u201cfor centuries to come, if man\u2019s industrial growth continues, the earth\u2019s climate will continue to grow warmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/em> reported on Plass\u2019s work\u00a0in 1956<\/a> with this strong headline:<\/p>\n

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There’s more, but the point is, we seem to be slow learners… or perhaps, fast learners but slow actors.<\/p>\n

Related Stories:
\n1.\u00a07 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS]<\/a><\/strong>
\n2.\u00a0Addressing \u201cGlobal Cooling\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\n3. Climate Science in 1956 [VIDEO]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: circulating via flickr<\/a> (CC license)<\/p>\n

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