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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (930650)	4/15/2016 8:08:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1573214

The purpose of this page is to provide a counter to the mythology that "journals were stuffed full of articles predicting an imminent ice age in the '70's". An article by the John Birch Society seems to be an example of the kind of thing [oops, they've changed the page! I should have copied the old one... happily, JS points me to: the web.archive.org's archive of it] (see also "The New Australian", or ff.org [ local cache]), and it even appears in milder form in the 1999 Reith lectures. The relevance of this claim is that "greenhouse sceptics" are fond of claiming that "all scientists" were predicting cooling a decade ago and now they've switched to warming. However, closer probing reveals few of these articles. wmconnolley.org.uk

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (930650)	4/15/2016 8:34:00 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573214

That's right. Hansen's model was used to predict a new ice. Of course, Hansen was too junior to put his name on it. But it was his model. Flashback from the Washington Times, July 9, 1971, a NASA scientist using a “computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen” predicted an ice age would occur within 50-60 years. According to Hansen’s computer model, “they found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere.” - See more at: thegwpf.com