The Unchained Goddess - Climate Warming Circa 1958

[TheMastersNemesis]

I remember watching Dr Frank Baxter and Richard Carlson on the Bell Telephone science series about weather. Even in 1958 meteorologists knew about global warming. Dr. Baxter even explained what would possibly happen if all the ice melted. Even then it was obvious that too much carbon was being put into our atmosphere.

Dr. Baxter explained that we could not know the consequences of climate shift caused by humans. Back then the dream was controlling the weather. Even now with all of our modeling we cannot know. Climate scientists are concerned that the climate could shift to the very extreme dramatically and NOT take many years.

It is hard to imagine that we would have an inland sea as far north as central Illinois were that to happen. Of course if you look at future tectonic plate shift in several million years, we are likely to have one anyway. The problem is that we can produce that in less than a century.

Denying the change now is like denying gravity exists just after you jumped off the Empire State Building. How do we combat the fools who are stopping anyone from doing anything?

[immoderate]

1. Here you go...

--imm

[Motown_Johnny]

3. I shared that on Facebook

Great to see that even then they spelled out in no uncertain terms that CO2 would warm the planet.

[SoCalDem]

2. Sad, isn't it?

When TV was new, there were MANY programs on that educated, and made us think.....and now we have regressed to Honey Boo-Boo & The Trashdashians & assorted other CRAP..

No thinking necessary or even wanted.

I remember watching NBC White Paper and of course the best series ever... http://www.justiceharvard.org/watch/

These are online & well worth watching.

[sofa king]

4. When TV was new, there was also a lot of crap.

For your consideration:

http://archive.org/details/Joan_Broken_Toe

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. I Used To Watch That Show.

It was a funny show. One of the funniest shows was when she made Oxtail soup. The problem was that she did not reduce the recipe she had. When the judge got home he had oxtail soup all over the house including the bath tub. Joan Davis was as funny as Lucille Ball, but never got the recognition.

Yes there was a lot of crap on then. But there were some very good programs as well. And many of the comedians like Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Bob Hope, Earney Kovaks, Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, and others could be really funny without going to the levels comedians do today. There were also some really good drama series where little known actors became prominent and famous during that era.

I guess I am really dating myself. I was around 10 years old in the mid 1950's.

[SoCalDem]

6. I missed out on that show.. we were overseas and did not have tv

until we came back to the US..(1962)..we did not have a color tv until 1971

[greytdemocrat]

7. "Even now with all of our modeling we cannot know. "

Doom & Gloom Clubers should reread that.