re: Here's a nice "f*ck you" to the Climate Change apostles (caution: sciency shite)

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I'm not even taking it down. It's my punishment.

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You're a bigger man than me!

And that article is legit. But note that there are no actual named scientists quoted predicting a new ice age. That part gets a vague "scientists calculate that a 1% sunlight drop could cause it" without either naming the scientists or actually saying whether they are predicting it. (In fact, both Bryson and Gilman, as quoted in the article, turned out to be more or less correct.)

Let me steelman the cooling argument for a bit: If you want to make the case that scientists thought there was global cooling, you're better off citing RS71 than some TIME article. They were actual climatologists making an actual projection in their paper, and while you need an academic account to get to it, the abstract gives you a pretty good idea of the content.

But RS71 was an outlier even in its time. Most papers in the 60s and 70s predicted warming, and within a few years (before the warming trend had even become apparent yet) they were walking it back and acknowledging their miscalculation.