Rebuttal to Bastardi's USA Today piece: "passage of the Clean Air Acts and reduction of reflective, cooling pollutants served to accelerate warming after the 1970s"

Extreme weather and climate change: Caution required but not reckless statements - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

The USA Today [Bastardi] piece closes with the statement, “Perhaps when the Atlantic flips cold, we will be hearing Ice Age scares again as we did in the 1970s.” Once again, this is a red herring. While a number of popular magazines ran pieces speculating about cooling, a clear majority of scientific papers published in this period supported global warming. Further, passage of the Clean Air Acts and reduction of reflective, cooling pollutants served to accelerate warming after the 1970s.