Posted by Dinah on June 11, 2006, at 16:01:59
In reply to Re: Am I the only one old enough to remember » Bobby, posted by Jay on June 11, 2006, at 11:31:52
But that's the weird thing about what I remember, Jay.
In the seventies, there was nothing normal about the snowfall in the north, and there was scientific evidence to show that the temperatures were abnormally cool. I was thoroughly convinced, and was terrified of the new ice age that I was positive was coming.
I believe the current trend is not to talk about global warming so much as climate changes.
*Are* you old enough to remember global cooling and the new ice age? If I remember correctly, our pollutants were interfering with the ability of the sun's rays to get to earth. But it's been a while, and I was young at the time. Then next thing I knew, seemingly overnight, there was global warming, not cooling, and nobody remembered that there ever was a new ice age scare.
Tons of new legislation re. pollution has come out since then, and in the US, using only my own recollections, pollution seems better now than then. Do you remember how the cars used to belch fumes? And you couldn't walk down a major street without coughing. And there have been tons of new laws about environmental pollution, which I believe are enforced at least better now than then.
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