re: #368 Obdicut

No, he’s not right that scientists made most of those proclamations.

The media does often distort things said by scientists.

Actually, he is. There may not have been much of a consensus for many of them, but most had their supporters within the scientific community.

The canard that “no one in the scientific community” predicted global cooling, for example, is not correct. There were several papers published in peer-reviewed journals that made exactly that prediction; someone posted a link yesterday (Sharmuta?) to a study that found a total of, I believe, 7 such papers published over the period of the decade in question. The same study also found, I believe, 29 papers predicting warming from the same sources. But the point is that there wasn’t unanimity, and such claims did indeed have a basis in the scientific literature. And that same is true for most of the other cases cited, as well - possibly all of them, but there are some I’m simply not familiar with.

That much of North America was gripped with an bitterly and unusually cold winter in the late 70s pushed this subset onto the front page. But it didn’t come out of nowhere.