Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
I remembered it yesterday. When I was a kid it was a commonly acknowledged fact that the planet's climate tends to drift back and forth between ice age and warm spell and we are simply fortunate enough to live between ice ages. I grew up reading my dad's old 70s science fiction, much of which was built on the assumption of global cooling and the planet's coming freeze. Then came the Bush-Gore race and this new concept that all of the previous data was wrong and we're not heading for centuries of winter caused by natural processes but the transformation of the planet into a scorching, barren hellhole caused by industrial pollution. I didn't really pay much attention to that election,still being a little kid, so my first real introduction to it was through Kerry's campaign. I assumed it was just one of politicians' typical fearmongering tactics until my biology teacher made us watch his An Inconvenient Truth later in high school. That's when I realized "oh shit, that's exactly what it is!" I've been asking around to see if anyone remembers the original theory from before the total about face but haven't really had much luck yet. I'm not sure if it's because this is California and people are even more brainwashed by the left than Alabama was by the right or if I'm just really the only one who remembers anything about this.
Two bonus questions, just for the hell of it: do you remember when it was acid rain that would kill us all, or how industrial use of "chemicals" (primarily pesticides) was going to kill the planet?
Two bonus questions, just for the hell of it: do you remember when it was acid rain that would kill us all, or how industrial use of "chemicals" (primarily pesticides) was going to kill the planet?