Ice Age 1978 Leonard Nimoy
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters mostly cite it skeptically in climate threads, as an example of past predictions of cooling.
What it is
A 1978 documentary hosted by Leonard Nimoy about the coming ice age, reposted with a framing that contrasts it with today's climate science.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Critical mythrwy · 2021-07 · on “Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets”
"It's happening" and the effects attributable to humans burning fossil fuels is a scale though. There's very little doubt C02 does increase the holding of heat. There's also very little doubt the earth has gotten slightly warmer over the past century. Where I become skeptical is in the modeling and predictions. More heat means more evaporation means more cloud cover means less heat but clouds hold heat held in. The earth tilts slightly on it's axis. Energy output from the sun varies. There are so many interacting factors. "Butterfly effect" and all. Then you throw politics and redistribution-ism and media sensationalism on top of it all and wow what a stinky mess. Suffice it to say I persona
Critical dotcommand · 2021-08 · on “It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record”
> Who still believes global warming does not exist? Nobody is denying that the weather has been warming. It's all the political hysterics and nonsense that a lot of people have issues with. And of course the "world-is-ending" chicken little craziness. > I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US. And if you watched Day After Tomorrow, are you going to use that as an example of the globe cooling? With every shift in weather, the media and the mindless always scream the world is ending. Our parents' gen
Critical aww_dang · 2021-11 · on “Dam the Bering Strait, use nuclear-powered propellers to melt poles (2020)”
Is there any irony in observing the fickle preferences of man in regards to geoengineering? Perhaps our understanding is more limited than some are willing to admit. 63 years ago, there was a push to warm the arctic. In 1978, doomsayers predicted a new ice age. For all of the predictions of apocalypse, none have materialized. However, throughout history fear has been a powerful tool for motivating and manipulating the public. "Ice Age 1978 Leonard Nimoy" - [this video] "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events" - [LINK]