1831 – Newspaper Reporters Were Far More Knowledgable About Science Than Current Nobel Prize Winners

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1. Ivan says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:21 am

   It would seem that they have been far more knowledgable throughout most of recorded history… at least, up until around 1988 (otherwise known as the start of The Age of Stupid):
   “THE GLACIAL EPOCH AND ITS RESULTS.-
   WHEN ICE WILL AGAIN DISAPPEAR.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18876535?
   ~31 Oct 1885

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   • suyts says:

     March 23, 2011 at 6:08 am

     Yes, it was a bad year. The end of Reagan’s time and the beginning of madness.

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2. Blade says:

   March 23, 2011 at 9:36 am

   Sorry, this is only anecdotal heresay. Without hard data I must question the existence of the LIA.

   /s (mosher 🙂

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   • suyts says:

     March 23, 2011 at 11:54 am

     lol

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3. Ivan says:

   March 23, 2011 at 10:57 am

   “Without hard data I must question the existence of the LIA.”
   Check this out:
   “A FAR REACHING PROBLEM. BIG TREES AND CLIMATE.
   REVEALING HISTORY’S SECRET.
   During the summer of 1911 a theory as to the relation of climatic changes to some of the great events of history led me to attempt to get from the Big Tree, at least a part of their story. During the three or four thousand years covered by history, the climate of western and Central Asia and of the countries around the Mediterranean Sea appears to have changed. On the whole the climate seems to have grown drier, so that regions which once were fertile have now become desert. Farther north, however, or in regions which are cold and damp because of high altitude, an opposite result has apparently been produced. The relatively dry and warm conditions of the present have changed lands which once were too cold for the practise of agriculture into places where large numbers of people can live in comfort by means of that pursuit. Thus there appears to have been a change in the location of the regions best suited to human occupation…”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5327830?
   ~24 Aug 1912

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