Climatic Change?

[Negative]

I'm going to stay out of this one (three weeks ago, I looked at every single source concerning global warming and those who call the concensus a myth, led by MIT's Lindzen, for one of my classes, and spent a week discussing the pro's and cons, and I've had enough of it ), BUT I can't resist RoadClosed's statement:

And to add to the irony... the same people that blew the whistle on greenhouse/global warming are the same dudes who were warning us all about global cooling in the 60s.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94
Every now and again, the myth that "we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and/or cooling" surfaces. [...]

[It is] not an argument used by respectable and knowledgeable skeptics, because it crumbles under analysis. That doesn't stop it repeatedly cropping up in newsgroups though.

I should clarify that I'm talking about predictions in the scientific press. There were some regrettable things published in the popular press (e.g. Newsweek; though National Geographic did better).

There are some very interesting people with good arguments against what they call the "myth of a concensus regarding global warming", but "it's the same dudes who predicted a new ice age" is not one of those arguments. For a pretty interesting read (from the "other" side):

- Christopher Monckton: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...it/nwarm05.xml
- Lindzen: http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lind...ationsRSL.html (publications 138-141)