[ExI] [wta-talk] Richard Lindzen on climate hysteria

[Mirco Romanato]

spike ha scritto:
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>> Mirco Romanato
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>>> Sorry, I meant 0.017°C/year obviously!
>> Do you know that people, in the '70s were scared by global chilling?...
>> Mirco
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> Mirco, whaddya mean in the 70s?  I worry about global cooling now.  The
> sunspot count is so low there is a reasonable possibility we could be going
> into another Dalton minimum, which would whoop our species bigtime, we being
> indigenous to Africa but having spread all over the globe.  Looks to me like
> we have *plenty* of margin to get warmer on this planet, but very little
> tolerance for cooler.

Well, we can adapt to it.
We did before, we can do again.
I suppose this will not happen as in "The Day After Tomorrow" (the most
hilarious movies I watched in the last few years).

The hysteria I was writing about is this:
http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/climate-change-alarmism-timelin/
http://butnowyouknow.wordpress.com/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/

It appear this is nothing new, apart for the clueless.

Mirco