(May 29, 2022 at 1:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(May 29, 2022 at 12:50 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Sorry to be cynical, but, it's just a fantasy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_i...ted_States
The seminal paper on catastrophic global warming was published in Science in May 1967, five months before my birth. Since then Western capitalism has expanded more and is releasing more greenhouse gases by metric ton into the atmosphere.
Um, actually scientists as early as the 1890s calculated approximately how much pollution we collectively release into the atmosphere globally every year. Even back that far some scientists were warning that increasing that pollution at a higher rate each year, and our planet is not keeping pace with it's ability to absorb it would cause lasting if not irreversible damage.
It's true that scientists, such as Arrhenius, performed some early calculations, but he thought that a warmer earth would be a benefit to Humanity. After that, scientific research on global warming diminished, was revived by an amateur scientist in World War II (Guy Stewart Callendar), and with the advent of computers, modeling of the Earth's atmosphere became more sophisticated in the 1960s. Lyndon B. Johnson, during a State of the Union speech, discussed the issue of catastrophic climate change, after one of his speech writers inserted the text into his speech.
