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Okay sorry, I was being Quick Draw McGraw with the articles. This was the article published by time referencing the "New Ice Age": http://content.time.com/time
by macrowhat 6y ago
Okay sorry, I was being Quick Draw McGraw with the articles.
This was the article published by time referencing the "New Ice Age": http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,944914,00.html http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9449.... I knew I saw it before ;) And of course, the paper you linked quotes many, many more that perpetuates the myth. I'll be bookmarking that!
A quote:
"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
So the scientific community seems to have the same perspective as I, whereby the media alarmists cause unnecessary fear among the population that accepts their orthodoxy unabated.
- aw1621107 6y agoThanks for the link! That does seem to be more in line with your original comment. Makes me curious what the results might be if an analogous survey of news articles were done to see the proportion of ones covering global warming vs. global cooling. There are a few articles mentioned in the paper, but it's not comprehensive (though to be fair those are supposed to be the most frequently cited articles).
- macrowhat 6y agoMight be time to dust off those NLTK skills. Can probably answer this over the weekend.