If you have a minute or two to spare, this is a rather amusing comparison of media coverage from the 70s - when we were all going to freeze to death.
And those who believe in AGW wonder why 50% of the population are sceptical about it...
Plato, still has vivid memories of a very popular BBC sit-com [Dick Emery Show] where the main characters were buying ski clothes. If you can find a clip of this, she'd be delighted.
Surely meteorologists and 'climate scientists' have thrown away any chance of being taken seriously?
ReplyDeleteCARBON TAX IS THEFT - PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
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"Although there was a cooling trend then, it should be realised that climate scientists were perfectly well aware that predictions based on this trend were not possible - because the trend was poorly studied and not understood. However in the popular press the possibility of cooling was reported generally without the caveats present in the scientific reports."
ReplyDeleteThere was never a consensus in the 1970s that the observed global cooling was going to continue. Individual scientists claimed that it would, just as today individual scientists claim that AGW does not exist.
This doesn't prove that the scientific consensus is wrong or unreliable; quite the opposite, it proves that while individuals will move to a conclusion with insufficient evidence, and the media will move to a conclusion with bugger all evidence whatsoever if it makes for a good story, the scientific consensus is extremely cautious and conservative in its pronouncements.