tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post8128739707167224370..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Flashback to 1972 - Scientists Fear for Arctic Sea IceSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-77143385915056511082013-06-13T15:30:04.423+10:002013-06-13T15:30:04.423+10:00Hi Peter.
It's interesting looking back at ol...Hi Peter.<br /><br />It's interesting looking back at old newspaper articles to see what the public would have known in the past, not just what was known in the scientific community. I read a lot of comments on the science-denying blogs trying to say that the fact that human activity is affecting climate is new, or new to the public. Clearly <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/p/blog-page_19.html#flashbacks" rel="nofollow">that is not the case</a>.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-77215027161806440472013-06-13T12:32:04.846+10:002013-06-13T12:32:04.846+10:00What a trip reading that. Has it really been fort...What a trip reading that. Has it really been forty years.<br />This stuff was in the news when I was a senior in high school.<br /><br />How clear our lesson was even back then.<br /><br />We were conducting a global geo-physical experiment and we were going to be warming our planet with increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases.<br /><br />If nothing was done to slow down our injections<br /> radical environmental/climate changes would happen sooner than later.<br /><br />We knew back then in the 70s, that if we were smart <br />we would start throttling down GHG injections into our atmosphere.<br />But Reagan and Reaganomics came along and the spell was cast:<br />Don't worry about it !<br /><br />Too much is never enough..<br />greed is good...<br />================<br /><br />Here we stand with 40 years worth of squandered runway behind us, and those un-thinking power-politics Republicans still want to fly full throttle - citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.com