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1958 - Global Warming - It's NOT newly known (Original Post) peoli Jun 2014 OP
Thanks for this. SheilaT Jun 2014 #1
Wow zebonaut Jun 2014 #2
I first learned about Global Warming in an 8th Grade Science Class . . . markpkessinger Jun 2014 #3
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. Thanks for this.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:25 AM
Jun 2014

I'm old enough to remember that far back, and while it wasn't widely publicized, the fact that we were putting a lot of carbon into the air was already well known as Dr. Baxter points out.

I also recall reading by the late 60's or early 70's that the climate was in general changing in the direction of weather becoming more unpredictable: there would be more droughts, more flooding, worse storms, and so on. I can't recall if what I read connected this change to global warming, but that a relatively long era of stable weather in this country was ending. I believe it was said that the stable era had begun around 1880 and had ended around the end of WWII. Clearly someone was paying enough attention so that twenty or twenty-five years later the change had been noted.

 

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
2. Wow
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 02:28 PM
Jun 2014

We've been ignoring this massive issue for over half a decade. Surely we've past the danger point.



Hey kiddies this is how much Air the atmosphere contains if you could roll it into a sphere. And how much water the Earth has as well.

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