One of the most tired and frustrating arguments put forth by those who deny the reality of

anthropogenic climate change is that scientists used to say in the 1970s that the planet

was cooling, not warming.

And if they were so wrong then, then they can't be trusted now.

Of course this is not true.

Scientists in the 1970s were well aware the Earth was warming.

It was the mass media who said the opposite.

The truth behind 1970s global cooling is coming up today, unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

About that 1970s global cooling.

Today most climate scientists tell us the Earth is warming.

Some people deny that and point out that in the 1970s climate scientists said the Earth was

cooling, perhaps headed into another ice age.

Today's scientists counter that it wasn't climate scientists who said that it was the media.

The deniers counter that that's just a dodge that it was in fact the scientific consensus

in the 1970s.

If the scientific consensus then was so wrong, how can a scientific consensus today be

any more reliable?

One side says, yeh, yeh, yeh, and the other counters with, I know you are, but what am I?

Only to be told, you and what army?

And are then shut down with a great big...

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