Speaking as someone who was reading high school and college textbooks in the 1970s, forecasts of a coming Ice Age might have warranted a half-page sidebar that brought it up as a possibility.
And for what it's worth, even if a consensus of meteorologists and geographers from 50 years ago had made incorrect predictions of a looming Ice Ag…
Speaking as someone who was reading high school and college textbooks in the 1970s, forecasts of a coming Ice Age might have warranted a half-page sidebar that brought it up as a possibility.
And for what it's worth, even if a consensus of meteorologists and geographers from 50 years ago had made incorrect predictions of a looming Ice Age (to repeat, that did not happen), it doesn't impeach the credibility of present-day climate science, any more than the errors found in 1960s era timelines of hominid evolution discredit the entire discipline of physical anthropology today.
Speaking as someone who was reading high school and college textbooks in the 1970s, forecasts of a coming Ice Age might have warranted a half-page sidebar that brought it up as a possibility.
And for what it's worth, even if a consensus of meteorologists and geographers from 50 years ago had made incorrect predictions of a looming Ice Age (to repeat, that did not happen), it doesn't impeach the credibility of present-day climate science, any more than the errors found in 1960s era timelines of hominid evolution discredit the entire discipline of physical anthropology today.