The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s

1. 2024-08-08 at 3:06 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
   
   

   Oreskes knew that scientists had been working to understand how carbon dioxide affected the global climate since the late 19th century. So she set about writing what she thought would be a short paper to correct the record. 
   
   In the process, Oreskes, along with other researchers at Harvard and Duke University, uncovered a lost history. As they searched troves of historical documents, they found plenty of other people were concerned about a warming planet, not just scientists, in the years before 1970. “We discovered a universe of discussions by scientists, by members of Congress, by members of the executive branch,” Oreskes said, “and the more we looked, the more we found.”

2. 2024-08-08 at 3:42 AM UTC

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   Elbow African Astronaut
   Wow that's crazy.
3. 2024-10-14 at 3:47 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Wow, that's history.
   The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!

   • the man who put it in my hood
4. 2024-10-15 at 3:35 AM UTC

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   Speedy Parker Black Hole
   Wow, that's propaganda.
5. 2024-10-15 at 1:38 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   Wow, I just found a Werther's original in my desk.
6. 2024-10-15 at 2:34 PM UTC

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   They Are Not Alone Yung Blood
   Wow, so basically global warming was folk science.
7. 2024-10-15 at 2:36 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   If it's LOST history...how do they know about it?
8. 2024-10-15 at 4:06 PM UTC

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   Charles Ex Machina Space Nigga

   Originally posted by Obbe The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s

   
   lets see the citations please.
9. 2024-10-15 at 5:08 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

   Originally posted by Obbe Wow, that's history.

   
   
   
   

   Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina lets see the citations please.

   
   
   
   
   

   Originally posted by Obbe

10. 2024-10-15 at 7:55 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
    wow that's amazing
11. 2024-10-15 at 7:59 PM UTC

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    Speedy Parker Black Hole
    Wow that's stupid
12. 2024-10-15 at 8:28 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

    Why has so much of this history been overlooked? Oreskes pointed to the “general historical amnesia of Americans.” As the politician Adlai Stevenson once put it, “The trouble with Americans is that they haven’t read the minutes of the previous meeting.” Even people working in environmental protection seem to have lost track of what happened, Oreskes said, perhaps because the EPA of the 1970s focused its limited attention on the acute pollutants that posed an immediate threat to public health — leaving the previous concern over CO2 tucked away in archives.

    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)