The Crisis Report — 23 (Part One)

What went wrong. A Climate Paradigm Postmortem or “How the Fossil Fuel Industry, the Republicans, and the Climate Science Moderates of the 80’s stole the rest of your life”

1976 was the last “cold” year on our planet.

Here’s a Climate Change trivia question.

“What was the last year that global temperatures were lower than the 1951–1980 baseline i.e., what was the last cold year on record?”

This question occurred to me two years ago and to my surprise I realized I didn’t know. I couldn’t remember a year when the earth cooled down instead of heating up. I had to look the answer up, and it both surprised and saddened me.

Because it was 1976.

The year Jimmy Carter got elected president.

If you want to understand the “Current Climate Science Paradigm” you have to go back to its beginning.

You have to understand the context it was born in and the information that was available at the time. Because SCIENCE is a social process (Kuhn — “The Structure of Scientific…