Anthropogenic global warming! But, how could we have known, ...

[CRH]

climate change would become a crisis in our life time! Al Gore was already too late!

Bullshit! Climate science has long known the anthropogenic influence our industrialization has on atmospheric CO2. Our science did not fail us, our politics and economies failed us. We were warned, when it could have done some good. But profit before the planet inflamed our avarice, and our leaders supported the denial, and suppress it, to this day.

Below is a link for a blast from the past, back to 1956. The climate science as it was known then, not much different, from what is known today. (youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=sdALFnlwV_o&feature=endscreen

[limpyhobbler]

1. wow.

So that's a real recording from 1956 then? Just wow.

[CRH]

2. Yeah I was more than a little surprised, ...

that Dr. Gilbert Plass was quoting figures that had not significantly changed. How this could have been suppressed for so long. I never heard of this in physical science or chemistry classes in high school, and that was between 1966 - 1968, a decade after the recording and exposure.

Science took us to the moon and got plenty attention, but revelations our industrial revolution was changing our climate, found silence.

[stuntcat]

3. my grandmother clipped AP articles from her paper in the 70's and 80's telling exactly..

Telling exactly what scientist are all saying now. They're all pretty short. I found them a few years ago when I was going through her things, and I kept some of them.

She was down south, in a county with lots of poverty and a few rich assholes. I bet she was the only one who thought it was important enough to clip and save.

[limpyhobbler]

5. That makes sense

since wealthy people can get out of harms way easier so they don't have as much to worry about.

[Viking12]

4. More forewarning from the 50's

"human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future" (p. 19)

http://uscentrist.org/about/issues/environment/docs/Revelle-Suess1957.pdf