Zero scientific consensus.

Many claim that in the 1970’s all scientists believed the earth was cooling. Factual examination of the controversial report reveals that there was a consensus. The consensus was we don’t know enough yet. The confirmation of the Milankovitch cycles indicated that we were to begin a cooling phase, the introduction of industrial greenhouse gases indicated we could interrupt the natural cycle. More study was needed.

As in all thing’s science and reason, context is required to understand relevance of any data or scope of understanding. In the case of the global cooling myth, let’s take a look at the context.

This is around the time that the “Milankovitch Cycles’ were confirmed by the deep ocean sediment core studies, thus solidifying the understanding that the earth’s climate system is subject to long term natural cycle influences that significantly alter our climate.

Ice age predicted in the 70’s? As we show below, not really. We came out of the last ice age 15,000 years ago. Typically, we would go back into an ice age as that is the natural cycle. The industrial imposed climate forcing is so large that we can not at this level of forcing, return to an ice age.

“A careful review of the report shows no consensus on global cooling. In fact quite the opposite is expressed by the generally views of the report. There was no consensus, or anything that could remotely be called a consensus, of ‘ALL’ scientists as has been claimed by global warming denialists.” W M Connolley