The environmental view?

Question

I need some help. I have two main questions that i want to know.

1. What was the environmental view of people in the 80s and in the 90s?

2. When was global warming first introduced?

If you could answer these questions it would really help me out alot.

Answer 1

1) People thought the world was going to freeze over because there was "such a cooling trend." Time magazine even did a piece on it.

2) Some time in the 90's sorry I can't be more specific. It was whenever some whack-job realized there was a small rise in temperature over the course of a decade or so.

Answer 2

I heard about global warming back in '71.  The full court press on global warming didn't start until maybe '91 or '92.

In the 80s, the issue was garbage dumps and how we would run out of places to put garbage.  Air quality was also an issue. People started saying "rainforest" instead of jungle, and claiming that the Brazilian one would be gone in 15 years.

In the 90s, the same issues were there, there was a huge play on upper atmospheric ozone and the "ozone hole".  Watch Robocop sometime.  It has a future ad for sunblock that shows how afraid people were of the ozone hole.

Answer 3

The other answers referring to the cooling theory are repeating a myth, the cooling theory never had much support from science, and as a matter of fact it was from the 70s not the 80s its came from a couple a papers one of which discussed both cooling and warming possibilities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cool...

It ran in the media for a while and there was a Newsweek story

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

And the scientific papers were talking about cooling over thousands of years not a 100.

Answer 4

1) I believe that in the 80s, it was global cooling until about half-way though. Then through '86 and the 90s, it has been global warming. Now... it seems as if they are calling it "climate change"

2) I don't know *when* global warming was introduced, but it was introduced by Margaret Thatcher. The world was going through the "global cooling"/ice age phase, so she (as a conservative) said that mankind's activity will cancel itself out through the greenhouse effect, therefore not causing global warming or global cooling. Then the world freaked out and said, "oh my gosh, global warming!" and that has taken us to where we are today.

Hope this helps!

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