Hey Joe, did you know when the Earth was first created that the Temperature at the surface was molten? But then over a long period of time, the planet started cooling?
That's the key thing. LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
The temperatures are going up so fast, the planet doesn't have time to adapt... that's the problem.
But you don't believe in that dun-der science, Cleetus. They don't talk about none of that stuff in the Bible.
Back in 1977, Time magazine was saying that with cooling a "New Ice Age" was happening.
In ONE ARTICLE.
Meanwhile, the scientific consensus, even back then, was that global warming was a real thing.
About That 1970s Global Cooling...
Allow me to summarize. It is true that all this news did appear in the popular mass media and TV shows like
In Search Of, but believe it or not, the news media had the same proclivity then as they do now for reporting what's new and sensational. Climatologists had known for a long time about the greenhouse effect and the warming produced by carbon dioxide, but until the latter half of the 20th century, nobody had really been able to put together predictive models. Then in the late 1960s, the University of Washington published the cooling effects produced by sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere, which reflected solar radiation away from the Earth. This was a profound new twist, and suddenly everyone started testing for sulfate aerosols, an industrial pollutant which is also the cause of acid rain. You may remember that from the 1970s as well. Cooling effects were added onto climate models, and for a time, a number of climatologists weren't sure which effect was going to be the more significant. That was all it took to make a sensational headline, and the mass media ensured that we've have shocking fears to keep us alarmed throughout the decade. But beneath the surface, the response of mainstream climatologists was more measured.