[NCLaw441]

Did the “climatologists” predict this cold period?

[xzins]

My junior high school science books did back in the 60’s.

:>)

[mountn man]

Did the “climatologists” predict this cold period?

Hollywood did...

(do I really need a sarcasm tag?)

[DownInFlames]

Farmers Almanac is right on the money.

[The_Reader_David]

Did the “climatologists” predict this cold period?

It depends which climatologists you consider. The dominant school of climatology in the Anglosphere (which deserves your scorn quotes) assumes that climate can be predicted by studying general circulation models of the earth's atmosphere, focusing on things like CO2 levels and heat-transfer between atmosphere and ocean. They predicted nothing of the sort.

The dominant school of climatology in Russian and Denmark looks at solar activity as the main determinant of global temperature, both total solar irradiance and solar magnetism (which matters because cosmic ray strikes seed cloud formation, which has a cooling effect -- less solar magnetism means less shielding from cosmic rays, more cloud formation and cooler temperature -- this the the causal link, discovered by H. Svensmark, that explains the correlation between sunspot number and global temperature). They predicted this, and the 30 year cool period is the least extreme of the possible futures they are predicting: the other end is a full-on ice age.

[vpintheak]

You know that they were predicting deserts in the mid-west harming women, rising ocean levels and flooding killing the poor and minorities.
Pure doomage. Owebowma will take credit for that not happening. I remember him telling people about how the oceans would cease to rise and a light would shine in the window and they would hear a voice telling them to vote for Owebowma.