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From: Bill Ward on 24 Jul 2010 00:58
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:46:27 -0700, Arthur Brain wrote:

> On Jul 23, 10:51 pm, "Peter Webb"
> <webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> _________________________________________ OK. Show me how you worked
>> that out. I have supplied documents from the time which clearly stated
>> that there was  "almost unanimous" agreement amongst climate scientists
>> of the time that the earth was cooling; quotes to that effect from the
>> NSA and other scientific bodies; evidence that the cooling climate was
>> extensively coverred in the press, and the testimony of an eye-witness
>> who was alive at the time and saw this first hand (me). All you do is
>> "deny" that climate scientists were claiming the earth was cooling and
>> another ice age was imminent, and for some strange reason you keep
>> denying it even after I have posted source documents from the time. Yet
>> you don't claim they are fakes. I guess the Newsweek story from the
>> 1970s is just an inconvenient truth you choose to ignore.
>
> You are completely delusional. Two articles in the popular press are not
> an indicator of the contemporary scientific consensus on the issue.
>
> Your "eyewitness testimony" is defectide and unreliable: you haven't got
> your understanding from your memory of the 1970s, you have it from
> reading a Crichton fiction novel, where this nonsense was first floated.
> You are gullible.
>
> Here is an academic paper which has been peer-reviewed and published in
> a respected journal and which contains the relevant facts:
> http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1
>
> "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."
>
> And it goes on to show that between 1965 and 1979:
> - 7 papers were published about Global Cooling - 44 papers were
> published about Global Warming.
>
> Nice massive fail for your scepticism, Bill.

I read the barrage of global cooling stories. I believed them. That's
why I'm skeptical now.
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