Slowing Down Global Warming
Climate change is a tricky topic these days because much of what we hear about it has little to nothing to do with actual science. For example, we are constantly bombarded with ideas like “reputable scientific studies continue to show that the earth is warming” and claims that “a rise in the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) must be stopped”. However, there is a dirty little secret behind all of this talk…it has all happened before.
Did you now that climate change was not always called “climate change”? In fact, it was once called “global warming” in the early 1900s and then “global cooling”, then “global warming” again, and cooling, until it finally changed to “climate change”. Here’s the record of the changes in name:
Global Warming – early 1900s when the polar areas were melting dramatically
Global Cooling – during the 1930s and 1940s when the earth was cooling (remember the harsh winter during World War II that stopped the Germans from taking down the Soviet Union?)
…then people forgot about the issue…
Global Cooling – 1960s and early 1970s
Global Warming — 1980s and into the 1990s (then some massive volcanoes erupted and caused the earth to cool again from the volcano dust blocking sunlight)
Climate Change – 2000s to present