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Original? In the early 20th century global cooling and an end to the interglacial period of the ice age we’re still in was a prominent concern.

By the way if we reset to the atmospheric conditions of a few hundred years ago this would be a certainty within a period of thousands of years at most. Much of the world’s population centers, agriculture, etc covered in hundreds of feet of ice.




That's not correct. We have had models showing global warming caused by fossil fuels since the late 18th Century at the very least.

A few papers in the 1980s were predicting global cooling, but those have been shown to be erroneous – sometimes even by the very same authors.




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