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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Oh wow, all 70... with just over half not thinking it was real.
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7 out of 71 did support it. That's less than 10%. Over half thought the
opposite was the case.
Incidentally, that opposite, which even back then 50% supported, is what 90%+ now support. So over the past few decades, a widely accepted theory has grown into a consensus.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
But it was hyped either way, well into the 80's.
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It was hyped by the popular media. You can hardly blame science for what popular media publish.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
And just like the hole in the ozone layer that was eating away, that could float around... that was man doing it then too.. it's was all bullshit.
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Eh... ozone depletion isn't bullshit. Go read up on it. We quit using CFCs for many things, and because of that, ozone depletion was halted. It will still take half a century for ozone concentrations to reach their pre-1975 levels, though.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
This sounds a lot like today.. Other than we know global warming is real, and the hype is still - if it's man is making it happen. 20-40 years later, it's the same cycles and same b.s. hype and the same split on those who think it's real or not.
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Except that it isn't a split.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
In that poll, 75 out of 77 climate scientists said that they thought human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.
The only split worthy of the name exists in the public opinion. There is a consensus among specialists, but a fierce debate between people who don't know all that much about the subject.