[lbo-talk] 1953 article warns of global warming

[Andy F]

On 7/5/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [Pretty amazing. Scan of the brief article below. Dr.
> Gilbert Plass of Johns Hopkins talks about
> 'greenhouse' effect a decade or too early? -B.]

Kolbert's _Field Notes from a Catastrophe_ mentions that somebody
brought up the possibility that industrial CO2 would cause global
warming (the take was optimistic at the time) back in the 1800's, when
the greenhouse effect was originally hypothisized.

-- 
Andy