ApocaDocs: Study: Global cooling a 1970s myth

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Posted Fri Feb 22 2008: from United Press International:


	Study: Global cooling a 1970s myth http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1203639475 "A U.S. climatologist said there was no consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed for a new ice age. Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday...The study, which will be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, said a review of the literature suggests that greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking.

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The ApocaDocs say:

You mean ... we could have gotten started on all this 40 years ago?