Not sure your age, BenLurkin... but do you remember this about forty some years ago? There was going to be another ice age and we were all going to die. I even remember movies about it. What’s old is new again!
I’m fit, 39, have a full head of hair, and am as rich as Croesus.
Actually I remember Walter Cronkite preaching global warming even back in the seventies.
Anyway the earth heats up and the earth cools as the Sun goes thru active and inactive periods. We are now headed for a cooling period.
And the same ol' scam as AGW, give us grants to "study" the "problem".
Don't forget the "population explosion", the "lack of food fallacy", the "DDT scare", the "Alar apple scare", that "boys and girls are the same - nature versus nurture", that every parent new otherwise, "mass quantities of Vitamin C would prevent colds".
Now they say that fish oil isn't healthy as they presumed and that Vitamin D is the cure all for low sunlight exposure. Also, alcohol kills brain cells, which they now refute. I've seen conflicting reports on how much alcohol is required to decrease heart attacks/strokes and how much cause such. Red meat is bad; veggies are the cure all, except for those who don't get enough protein, etc.
It goes on and on by our brilliant all-knowing scientists, until they change their minds. Some times I think science is an in-exact science. Especially love astro-physicists who say the universe will eventually collapse on itself and now some say it will always be ever expanding.
These same guys claim there are an infinite amount of universes. The same guys claim that the universe popped into existence through the "singularity theory" and THEN explodes into the Big Bang. How could they possibly know other than their equations on a chalk board? Hell, they still can't explain what gravity is.
I remember it well. There was an article in Popular Science about ideas for combating Global Cooling and the next ice age. The were offering ideas like spraying the poles with black paint applied from C-130s.
The winters of 1977-78 and 78-79 were exceptional in Oklahoma for the amount and duration of snow and ice. I also remember quite a bit of sledding in the 60s that just went away for many years.
And so it goes.
That's what our HS science teacher told us. If it knocks down our 100+ Texas summers, then bring it on.