Back To The Future

The National Academy of Sciences asks “When could scientists have first known about climate change?”

National Academy of Sciences on X: “When could scientists have first known about climate change? A thought experiment by #NASmembers Ben Santer, Susan Solomon & Qiang Fu shows the fingerprints appeared early on—demonstrating the power of long-term climate monitoring. Read more in @sciam: https://t.co/ZktHdP2D7E” / X

Fifty years ago they answered the question.

“The climates of the earth have always been changing, and they will doubtless continue to do so in the future. How large these future changes will be, and where and how rapidly they will occur, we do not know.”

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1975

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2 Responses to Back To The Future

  1. arn says:

    Back then they knew that they don’t know.
    Now they pretend that they do
    though none of their many models can predict the future nor the past(before adjustment).
    Maybe the total failures of their ice age and warming predictions encouraged them to believe that they are supercompetent.

    Climate Science made probably the biggest progress of any science in history.
    They went from no being able to read thermometers a hundred yeare ago
    to predicting an ice age to predict a warming
    to reading climate fingerprints within only a century.

  2. Bob G says:

    Meanwhile, back in South Central Minnesota we can’t even hit 85 degrees in the next 10 day forecast. I’m old enough to remember when it occasionally hit 100 in early August. crops have never looked better at this time of year. Viva La climate change!!!

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