bshole
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I distinctly remember studying global cooling in the 7th grade. We spent a great deal of time discussing the coming ice age and what it would do to modern society. So while "global cooling" might never have been a main stream opinion, it was certainly in our text books.
It's odd that way back then it was presented not as a pending disaster, but as an event that we would have to deal with.
Yep I remember that as well. I also remember being taught that the oil/gas would be gone by the year 2000. I put the global warming prophets in the same pot. When "scientists" start predicting cataclysm they strike me not as scientists but as religious zealots. Unfortunately when these boneheads are proven wrong about the catastrophe, they simply will be replaced by other "scientists" who will start predicting another looming crisis which we can only avert by devastating the economy. In reality, these scientists are just a bunch of luddites and anti-social misfits who hate humanity.