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1) http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/global-cooling-compilation/ - Great article by Anthony Watts in which he uncovers more than 60 newspaper and magazine articles from the 1970s warning us about the dangers of global cooling and the coming of yet another ice age.......And, yes, folks, some of the authors even seemed to think that the science was settled on it.............2) Of course the best part of this scenario is that a lot of the individuals who are currently trumpeting doomsday from warming were the very same folks doing the very same thing when it came to cooling (all the while totally blaming man, of course). Stephen Schneider from Stanford, for example, I quote, "Although the addition of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases surface temperature, the rate of temperature increases diminishes with increases in the atmospheric CO2.......However, it is projected that man's potential to pollute will increase 6 to 8-fold in the next 50 years. If this increased rate of injection... should raise the present background opacity by a factor of 4, our calculations suggest a decrease in global temperature by as much as 3.5 °C. Such a large decrease in the average temperature of Earth, sustained over a period of few years, is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age." Specifically here the dude blamed aerosols. Oops............3) And I just love it, folks. Not only does this dude acknowledge (in this 1970s treatise) the logarithmic nature between CO2 emissions and warming, HE CHAMPIONS IT!! None of this bullshit about a positive feedback loop or amplification. Nope, the planet is going to cool DRAMATICALLY and there ain't a blessed thing that increases in CO2 can do about it, period/end of discussion.....I mean, is this unbelievable or what?