Originally Posted by
jimmuller
I know this may sound like injecting politics into a bicycle discussion but it is actually an historical note. Scientists, or at least some scientists, have been predicting global warming due to CO2 generation for a long time. It just wasn't part of the public discussion. It wasn't controversial enough to be controversial. Nobody took it seriously until people started disagreeing!
It was in the 70s that they picked up the first traces of GW, and thought that it might be caused by us.
As to what the other guy said, the ice age idea was shot down immediately. The press liked it, so they made
a big deal out of something the scientific community never supported.