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Old 11-20-2015, 16:12   #13
Dusty
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Originally Posted by PSM View Post
All of this nonsense was started "Billions and Billions" of years ago by Carl Sagan. (Well, OK, 35 years ago in his Cosmos TV program.) Or, at least, that's when he began popularizing it. As far back as the '60s, he speculated that the temperatures on Venus were much higher than thought at the time. This was confirmed by the Mariner probes. He eventually blamed "Greenhouse Gasses" for the runaway overheating of Venus. The "Global Cooling" and "Nuclear Winter" crowd switched to warming after Sagan's TV show became so popular.

Here's a good essay on Sagan's contribution to what became a fraud:

The Original Sin of Global Warming

Pat
It's gone back and forth between "warming" and "cooling" since I was a kid and typewriters were just getting popular.
It's lib baloney.
PS bandwith should not be wasted on the subject.
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