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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: greenspirit who wrote (115593)7/16/2009 5:02:18 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 541735
 
Interesting but lame. First google hit on that book:

This book is occaisionally cited as, in some vague way, predicting ice ages. It does no such thing, of course, but its interesting to see what it is really about. wmconnolley.org.uk

Further irony from Wikipedia:

In 1977 Schneider criticized a popular science book (The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age) that predicted an imminent Ice Age, writing in Nature:

...it insists on maintaining the shock effect of the dramatic...rather than the reality of the discipline: we just don't know enough to chose definitely at this stage whether we are in for warming or cooling— or when. [1] en.wikipedia.org

But that does actually give us one (1) book apparently predicting a new ice age, so there you go. On the conventional reality front, Wikipedia vectors us on to en.wikipedia.org

Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis never had significant scientific support, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles, and a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s. General scientific opinion is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but undergone global warming throughout the 20th century.[1]

You may now return to your W-world view of what is and isn't science. What, exactly, you're drinking on that front is not something I'd want to get into.
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