It’s not a good thing that a growing sector of the population is skeptical these days by pronouncements by scientists. They were much more diligent before the war and everything got rigorously peer reviewed before theories were published. What happened?
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Originally Posted by jem
Ha, newbie, I definitely recall the Late Devonian mass extinction event, now that was a real one, youngsters of today - no bloody idea.....
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Technically, as there is permanent ice at both poles then we are in an ice age - currently though we are in an interglacial period where the ice is melting back rather than advancing.
It was accepted in the 60’s by some scientists that the Earth would continue to cool, but the public messaging was somewhat less than optimal. The idea of the UK being covered in ice within a lifetime was ludicrous - these timescales run to tens of thousands of years.
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It’s also pertinent to remember that ships once passed by Greenland when the sea was free of ice altogether, and yet if that happened now, everyone would be up in arms that something had to be done about it as it’s all our fault!