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notsheigetz
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Great Moments in Failed Predictions...

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Why I am one of those awful skeptics ....

Claim Jan. 1970: “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.”? Life Magazine, January 1970. Life Magazine also noted that some people disagree, “but scientists have solid experimental and historical evidence to support each of the predictions.”?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/19/g ... edictions/
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Hubris.

The wise know how little they know. Meanwhile ecoscientists predict global cooling, global warming...
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