Climate Management Issues

207Human Psychology and the Media

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 ...