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would increase at a rate far beyond CO
2
and lead to global cooling. We
didn’t know yet that such effects were so regionally located. By the mid-
1970s, it was realized that greenhouse gases were perhaps more likely to be
shifting climate on a global scale” (Azios, 2007). Connolley agreed, stating,
“Climate science was far less advanced in the 1970s, only beginning in a way,
and ideas were explored in a tentative way that has later been abandoned”
(Azios,2007).
This represents an inherent issue of science in general. As additional
knowledge is gained about a subject, processes and outcomes of phenomena
may change. Scientists need to remain open-minded and objective. If they
do not remain open-m ...