When I was a kid, it wasn't climate change that we worried about. It was Acid Rain and Greenhouse Gases. The latter is what makes things hotter, but then folks figured out that weird stuff like more hurricanes, and rising sea levels would cause more than just some extra days in board shorts and tank tops. So now we call it Climate Change.
Those of us who remember literal acid falling from the skies know better than this euphamized version of what's going on.
When I was maybe 20 or so, my conservative dad gave me PJ O'Rourke's book All the Trouble in the World. A somewhat reasonable explanation that maybe things aren't all that bad out there. On the matter of what was called Global Warming then, O'Rourke pointed out that in the 60s and 70s some climate scientists believed that the atmospheric changes from fossil fuels might make the Earth cooler.
It was a reasonable hypothesis back then. That's the nice thing about science sometimes. "Hey Jim, I think something's gonna happen to the temperature."
"Well Meg, you've got three options: up, down, or not a whole lot."
"Um... down!"
Then you wait 30 years, and check the thermometers, and say, "oh, I was wrong. It went up."
Science!
But Climate Change is a drag, and this is about myth, so I kind of want to explore what would've happened if it had gone the other way...
Here's the myth of Climate Collapse.