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Not only do the modern models attribute the cooling for the 1940s-70s to aerosols, so did the work in the 1970s. One thing I have to repeatedly point out to the "they forecast an ice age in the 70s" crowd is that that minority[1] of forecasts were all based on high-aerosol emission scenarios.
[1] There was a period of a couple months where the cooling forecasts caught up to the number of warming forecasts. It ended when the third paper forecasting warming came out.
[1] There was a period of a couple months where the cooling forecasts caught up to the number of warming forecasts. It ended when the third paper forecasting warming came out.
He was the Daily Torygraph's science writer for many years, and actually not too bad until he got the idea that being able to explain other people's science (which he was tolerable at) meant that he was qualified to come up with his own.
He also, as his SFE entry notes, wrote a couple of SF novels. I read Koyama's Diamond many years ago and several parts of it have stuck in my mind for their sheer awfulness of characterisation and prose style.
He also, as his SFE entry notes, wrote a couple of SF novels. I read Koyama's Diamond many years ago and several parts of it have stuck in my mind for their sheer awfulness of characterisation and prose style.
I'm not projecting - YOU'RE projecting!
I teach Human Development among other classes. All year, I'm squirreling away articles and blog posts that give new information on the many topics we cover, but then the semester comes and... WHAT, I have to UPDATE my SLIDES? UGH.
Er, I was suggesting _he_ was projecting.
Their own tears were not just delicious to them, but also filling.
I see my humor meta-tags failed to render visibly. :-/
And finally- I had a read of some of his articles on his website. I see them as very much of their time and culture, which means they look rather odd to more modern people. They are well enough written in a kind of overdone artsy sort of way, but it seems clear that he has never been immersed in the world of science and it's associated cultures the way you might expect. Rather he observes from the border, always trying to put the science into the sociocultural framework he is familiar with, with his Eton and Christ Church Oxford education. Hence of course he wrote for the Torygraph.
To a post-millenial I expect his writings look a bit like vapid witterings.
To a post-millenial I expect his writings look a bit like vapid witterings.
His father (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berry,_Baron_Hartwell) was Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Telegraph up to 1986 and before that his uncle was (Adrian's uncle, that is).
I need an I adore this button for this, thank you.
Searches going back 500 million years
THEY'VE GOT A TIME MACHINE NOW? WE'RE ALL DOOOOOOOOMED!
THEY'VE GOT A TIME MACHINE NOW? WE'RE ALL DOOOOOOOOMED!
There's a lot of complicated interconnected stuff that leans on the Internet, including significant amounts of food transport. But there's a difference between "this might kill as many people as World War II" and "this would destroy all of civilization." And that in turn is very different from a level of "ice age, woe!" that requires pretending that rain forests are uninhabitable by humans.
Ah, how the establishment works- give jobs to younger member of it. They don't need to be wonderful, and awfulness does usually mean they lose their job, if htey are sufficiently junion enough, but basically if you can do a tolerable job of work they'll keep you on for life.
"If we move camp now, the glaciers win!"
I assume somebody is now campaigning for increased aerosol production but I haven't encountered them.
My impression from being a geology major at Caltech in the 1990s, plus further reading, was that plate tectonics was adopted quite quickly. It's a good case of how a "paradigm shifted" *without* people dying off. People resisted the old evidence of continental drift, for lack of a mechanism, then seafloor spreading data came in, and they went and looked harder for a mechanism. (That's probably simplifying work that had been going on in parallel.)
The accelerating universe went from not even being a candidate idea to accepted pretty quickly, with two teams reporting the supporting observations.
I have the impression that quantum mechanics was adopted pretty fast as well, apart from Einstein, but then all the names you hear with it are young, so I dunno.
The accelerating universe went from not even being a candidate idea to accepted pretty quickly, with two teams reporting the supporting observations.
I have the impression that quantum mechanics was adopted pretty fast as well, apart from Einstein, but then all the names you hear with it are young, so I dunno.
It's a common idea for geoengineering. Would apparently be pretty cheap and easy, within the reach of a dedicated billionaire.
There were a lot fewer of those hardy ancestors. "The race will survive, but seven billion people will die" would not be a very reassuring argument, IMO.
We know what Elon Musk, Tony Stark, and Bruce Wayne are doing with their money. What about the rest of them?
I think the popularity of this position in the science-fiction community comes from a 1986 Analog article by George W. Harper called "A Little More Pollution, Please!"
Belatedly replying to say, Yes, I'm pretty sure that's where I heard it. The timing and source certainly fit.
Belatedly replying to say, Yes, I'm pretty sure that's where I heard it. The timing and source certainly fit.
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