we were for an ice age before we were against it

longwaver wrote 10:49 pm

" in 75 the gov predicted a (coming) ice age...And (and so)a government forecast for anything is worth what again?"

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my response

i dont think the government made that prediction in 75 (ford administration?)

back then there was good reason to think that in the coming centuries (they never said tomorrow) we would enter a new ice age

the natural record indicated grand cycles of 95 thousand years ( orbital eccentricity) 42k yrs orbital obliquity) and 12k yrs ( rotational precession) due to the milankovitch cycle

the newer warning about climate change have noting to do with predicting the milankovitch cycle or other natural events that effect climate

i dont know if 20 billions metric tons of CO2 into the air every year will win thee tug of war with the natural cycle of ice ages

i think (guess) it will

but the forbes article is simplistic and unreasonably vituperous in its argument