late wrote:Both programs that found warming were secret, at that time.
And were wrong.
AND... there was only one scientific paper that found cooling.
That's just baldly false:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/19/ ... ot-a-myth/In particular, see the spreadsheet of references -- 190 of them -- at the end.
The two scientists that authored it had to retract the paper.
Please provide evidence for this claim.
They screwed up badly. You aren't talking about science, the media loved it and ran with it, and got a lot of mileage out of it.
False. You have been deceived by liars. You are probably relying on Peterson, Connolley and Fleck's 2008 paper, "The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus." But the authors of that paper simply lied.
First, they lied about what the scientific consensus on global cooling was. They claimed the skeptical community was claiming that the consensus was that the earth was entering a new ice age, and proceeded to show that there was no such consensus. But that was not the consensus the skeptics had claimed. It was just a strawman fallacy. The ACTUAL claimed consensus was only that the earth HAD cooled between the 1940s and the 1970s, not that it was GOING to get even colder. There is obviously a huge difference between a consensus about OBSERVED temperatures and a consensus about PREDICTED ones. GET IT???
Then they lied about what the scientific literature actually said. They lied that the majority of papers claimed warming, when more papers actually stated that the earth had cooled in the 1940-1970 period than said that it had warmed. This sort of consistent, blatant lying is very common among the anti-fossil-fuel hysteria crowd.
I loved the retroactive bit. Where did you find that piece of idiocy. Or did you make it up?
It is fact. See the blatant revisionism of the PCF 2008 paper. NASA and NOAA -- who have custody of the global temperature data all climate scientists use -- have been reducing historically recorded temperatures from earlier years and increasing readings from recent years. They just change the numbers to agree with anti-fossil-fuel hysteria propaganda.