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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Sun Aug 15, 2021, 08:43 AM Aug 2021

Climate Change. It's not new:

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Climate Change. It's not new: (Original Post) magicguido Aug 2021 OP

The Aussie article info originally was printed in Popular Mechanics Doc Sportello Aug 2021 #1

I remember being aware by the mid-1960s PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2021 #2

Doc Sportello

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1. The Aussie article info originally was printed in Popular Mechanics

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Sun Aug 15, 2021, 09:24 AM

Aug 2021

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/

And it wasn't the only prescient report from the time:

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Reports about coal burning and its effect on the atmosphere date back to the 1800s, according to The New York Times.

In an April 1896 paper titled, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground," Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist, suggested a link between carbon dioxide levels and temperature.

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. I remember being aware by the mid-1960s

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Sun Aug 15, 2021, 09:33 AM

Aug 2021

that we were putting carbon in the air, and it was going to change things. So even 50 years earlier that was well understood.

I just got done reading an entire book about climate change, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells. Essentially it's too late and we are all screwed. The book came out two years ago.

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