I need info on the plan scientists came up with back in the "global cooling" era to melt the glaciers.

Question

I know that during the era that scientists were claiming the new ice age was around the corner they were proposing a way to melt the glaciers. I am writing an article on global warming and heard about this a little while ago. I found it ironic that they wanted to melt the glaciers back then, but now claim we have to stop them from melting. Anyone know of the plan they had come up with to chemically melt the glaciers??? Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

There was a theory that included 7 scientific papers predicting global cooling.  One of the lead scientists recanted 3 years later, saying he underestimated the amount of CO2.

There was no consensus whatsoever that cooling would happen.  In fact at the same time, there were 42 scientific papers predicting Glogal Warming, AGW.   So actually, the  vast majority of climate science was leaning toward warming.

"Over time, William Connelly has been steadily documenting 70's research predicting global cooling. It's a rich resource but as he admits, could be more accessible. Now he has collaborated with Thomas Peterson and John Fleck to publish The Myth of the 1970's Global Cooling Scientific Consensus, due to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society."

"The paper surveys climate studies from 1965 to 1979 (and in a refreshing change to other similar surveys, lists all the papers). They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970's, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling."

"So in fact, the large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than climate science predicting cooling, the opposite is the case. Most interesting about Peterson's paper is not the debunking of an already well debunked skeptic argument but a succinct history of climate science over the 20th century, describing how scientists from different fields gradually pieced together their diverse findings into a more unified picture of how climate operates. A must read paper."

http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-197...

Case closed.