[lbo-talk] 1953 article warns of global warming

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 12:05:48 PDT 2006


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



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