Clara Illbustyourballs Zetkin wrote:... the 'global warming' swindle before the 70's ended. Actually, I think they were hawking it as the impending doom of the, soon to be upon us, 'ice age' ...
How true, Clara.
.(and GC, of course, a class for itself, and here truly timeless)
There was indeed some cooling through the 70s (ca. '65..'80), seen in the data.
BUT.
For a middle-term
trend, you need at least 30..50 years of its manifestation. For a long-term trend, at least 100..200 years. The measly 10 or so years, that's barely a "trend" (as gloriously pointed out by kkklimate itself, in the 80s..90s) (... and leading of course to the next manmade klimatizm-brouhaha).
Yet, even taking those periodic (and fully manufactured) crazes as a given, it's always stunning to see (
a) how brazen the manipulators operate, and (
b) how shortsighted those idiots go about that bizness.
One of the most glorious exhibits of (a)+(b) in the recent 40-years craze, in plain view, was that stunning sequence of the – fully public! – label-and-scope shell game:
[Global Cooling →]Global Warming
→ Climate Change
→ Climate Crisis
→ Climate Emergency, accompanied by the thimblerig of Global
→ Planetary and Warming
→ Heating.
And, of a lesser caliber yet even more idiotic: When [UNFCCC/]IPCC started, their main sword was to be, of course, The Report. Any (ca.) 6 years, a BIG BIG BIG Assessment Report, with its own (uniquely identifying) name. And mind you, along with UN bureaucrats, there were also people involved with, after all, some experience in "doing science", writing research papers etc. (though
such types are
always way more on the administration side than on the research side of "science biz").
Now,
naming the Reports.
They started ('90) with
FAR, First Assessment Report.
Next ('96) they came with
SAR, Second Assessment Report.
Warmed up, in 2001 the next came:
TAR, Third Assessment Report.
Then, 2007, ... and here, uh-oh, it's
Fourth, bbbut we can't call it
FAR (again!).
After near 20 years of hot-air biz, and no second sooner, they finally come to a conclusion which any halfway systematically thinking guy (ask any reasonable programmer, for instance) knows as ABC: just call 'em effing reports AR1, AR2, AR3,
AR4, ... , AR314, ... etc.