Because the "public panic" didn't actually exist. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#Concer n_in_the_Middle_of_the_Twentieth_Century
There was some concern that there was the POSSIBILITY of global cooling, but no one made a big deal about it, and the scientists cautioned even then that while they thought that MAYBE the Earth was about to enter a cooling phase, CO2 emissions could still alter Earth's climate.
Just because it happened to be cold in your particular area at one particular, tiny subset of time doesn't mean that global warming doesn't exist. I wish this argument would die.
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Because the "public panic" didn't actually exist. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#Concer n_in_the_Middle_of_the_Twentieth_Century
There was some concern that there was the POSSIBILITY of global cooling, but no one made a big deal about it, and the scientists cautioned even then that while they thought that MAYBE the Earth was about to enter a cooling phase, CO2 emissions could still alter Earth's climate.
Just because it happened to be cold in your particular area at one particular, tiny subset of time doesn't mean that global warming doesn't exist. I wish this argument would die.