Yeah go imagine if you mine coal you can get and will probably get black lung so imagine what happens when you burn that what it does to your lungs and your environment. Exactly
So a century ago they already knew that human activity causes greenhouse gas and temperatures to rise. They published it for the world to see. And now we’re living it!
the first Earth Day was in 1970 and was in response to the extraordinary air and water pollution. So much was written then, but often cited was much older knowledge of the damage being done. It was so bad that even REPUBLICANS, Nixon anyone?-- helped create the EPA.
To keep this in perspective, rate of CO2 addition to the atmosphere is about 7 times that (40 billion tons per year), not to mention methane additions as well
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Right there with you! I use this every semester as I hit my stride with climate change. Svante Arrhenius did the initial calculations back in the first decade of the 1900s.
Unfortunately humans will most likely be the reason humans cease to exist. I used to worry about that but frankly with trump at the helm I truly believe the entire world is in danger. Trump and his billionaire goblin sidekick are actual villains. Like taking over the world enslaving man villains.
I REMEMBER watching as a teen and in my early twenties shows like Nova and National Geographic specials where scientists were ALWAYS saying,”The Earth is warming at a rate that could cause eventual catastrophic weather occurances” soooo folks thinking it’s new weren’t “into Science”
noone wanted to know then and don't want to know now.... $$$$$$$ always win .... just like lifeboats for the Titanic ... didn't want to spend the money.
This info is actually something that reached back into the late 1800s, at the birth of the Industrial Revolution. I'm glad this article hasn't fallen down the Memory Hole. Nobody can say we weren't warned.
America needs to hear this. Stop the pearl clutching and feigned outrage. That is a failed strategy of the DNC. Hoping people would vote FOR Democrats, while offering no real agenda, just to vote AGAINST Trump was pompous, arrogant, and asinine. The fight is in the streets, not a courtroom.
It was Trump that had concepts. Harris had policy positions on all of the important issues and Biden’s record on actions taken by the previous administration to govern the country sensibly. Harris lost because the lilies of the fields got their panties in a bunch. Lilies are white, by the way.
It's just that they don't care! Their greed far outweighs their capacity to care for the catastrophic damage they're causing to others, the environment & to the planet.
They are like the kids who stole all the candy from the candy jar for themselves rather than share.
But now they're all grown up.
There was a lot of what we call know as environmentalism matching every big pollution event in the 20th. The Great Smog of 1951 made a lot of British pro-environment and it took years to stamp that out again, and was the crack in the door for the 60s to face burning rivers etc and fix things.
Rodney, Ōtamatea, Waitematā and Kaipara were fairly obscure rural counties north of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, where the main activity in 1912 was digging out the gum of ancient buried kauri trees. The more astonishing that someone idly wrote a para for a column-filler that was so prescient.
It's going to be hard to find who wrote a paragraph in an obscure newspaper 113 years ago, but possibly easier to source it. e.g. Scientific American was publishing this kind of thing.
I’m 75.My grandmother used to say that the rockets and planes were changing the weather. I was a teenager in the 60s and I thought she was going senile.Well done Nana
Yesterday, locally, It got up past 65 degrees Fahrenheit. That's almost unheard of for beginning of Feb. Feb avg from 2024 was 38 degrees, and Feb. 4th 2024 was 43 degrees. Feb avg for 2025 so far: 56
Please GET THE WORD OUT- ALL GOVT AGENCIES GET AUDITED EVERY YEAR BY INDY AGENCY! All prez elon needed to do is LOOK at these reports to GET RID OF WASTE. NOT TAKE OUR PERSONAL INFO!
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It’s not about getting rid of waste. Don’t respond to the reasons they give you. Lies all of them. Plainly intending to stop all programs based on excuses (D.E.I., etc) so they can pick and choose what gets to restart without having to conduct any serious review or justification.
Dems explained ALL YEAR 2024 of playbook to do this in Proj2025. 1/2 USA did not comprehend. Today they still dont. So go with the trump claim & disprove THAT. Look - u never had to hv elon hack into OUR govt- the YEARLY audit reports here. Pentagon FAILED budget 7 yrs in row- cuts should b THERE!
By the way, for many thousands of years, humans have been despoiling the environment. They didn't give two shits for the succeeding generations. That's a lot of silly b.s. Do you think people in China and India, for example, give a damn about the future generations. Kerry and Gore are frauds.
Articles describe her as a women's rights activist and amateur scientist, although I don't know if she could be anything else, at the time. Her article is described as the first published in a scientiifc journal by an American woman under her own name.
Our history is not lining up, whether it be a Mandela Effect or if it was always like that. The science books don't appear to line up with the history books for that time. It appears humanity was more advanced than we thought.
Have long been obsessed with Foote and was about to say something but here it is already. Glad to see this. Also good to note Native Americans understood this before she did and even western primary sources from the 1600’s indicate Native Americans knew that even over harvesting effected climate
Absolutely. As a fellow Kiwi, I've known this for 40+ years & done all I could to reduce my carbon footprint. But during that time I've been mocked and criticized, & watched employers have race cars, speed boats, huge SUVs & world travel, all while paying me as little as possible. Heart breaking.
It’s so bad. Why are we as a species so terrible at slowing down runaway trains that we started all by ourselves. Consumerism I suspect has a lot to answer for
Unfortunately, everyone is so self absorbed with their smarts phones & the instant gratification they get from them, that they don't realize they're being manipulated. A recent NZ Herald article on Facebook re 2024 being the hottest year on record, there were 2.5k laughs but NO another reactions!
I cannot believe that Kiwis on average would react that way to such serious news, & I would bet my life on it that Zuck, either via algorithms or other means, manipulated the reactions. The very next day I saw the article about Zuck's penchant for neo-nazis, & immediately deleted my Meta accounts.
100% correct and I’ve collected all the materials that show it. You can see Roger Revelle’s growing fear starting with his 1956 Sun Sea and Air, 1964 Restoring the Quality of our Environment, to his Scientific American article in 1982. He knew, was desperately waving his arms to warn all of us.
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The rich relieve that as long as a tiny portion of the planet is fine, then they will be the ones living there. So they are ok with 90% of it being destroyed.
I've a (weak) theory that calling it climate change is detrimental because people don't like the idea of change. Thus calling it that alone causes some to put their fingers in their ears
There is an earlier document from 1815. The scientists were sending out alarms because ppl were on track to destroy the planet with the pollution going on & not slowing. GenX kids were taught to♻️& be more eco conscious, there were so many nature documentaries but it seems they were made for trump.
Add this to it. A photo around the same time of a well known New York Journalist on her way to work..
..on her electric scooter!
We know that Paul Getty 3rd was responsible for killing off E-cars way back then.
Paid off Politicians! Same BS!
If Trump used his brain like a normal person he'd already understand this. Maga and the orange clown troupe don't have 2 functioning brain cells between them and trying to approach them with anything resembling logic is futile.
With clean energy and solar energy oligarchs would be unable to control the people by keeping them dependent on a product (fossil fuel). Beyond profits, solar energy makes society free from being dependent on the wealthy. So naturally they deny climate change.
I don’t think this had the impact on deniers you may think it has. Climate change is real, I drive an EV and have solar panels but see the date and think how a denier will read that, “that was a 100 years ago and nothings changed,(I know it has) they are overreacting”.
I don't know how old you are, but before the late '80s early 90s, environmentalists we're portrayed by our government and the media in a bad light, overreacting alarmists at best and even as "eco terrorists" at worst.
It's ridiculous that it took so long for facts to breakthrough disinformation
No I didn't mean scientists, I was referring to media that down played it for decades, corporations, our governmental leaders, ext. U get the idea. Scientists obviously knew about this more than 100y
If this was observable in 1912 , it should have been in general public discourse long before it was
So I have heard, do you know they brought up everything from hydrogen cars, electric engines, engines that run on urine, just to keep them out of the public.
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Utter poppycock! This sort of unscientific trumpery will be the downfall of our nation! What is wrong with this godless age that fears a little smoke yet somehow believes that man is capable of inventing flying machines? Woe to thee, America!
When I was a kid in the 1960's, I read an article in the newspaper in which scientists said we could be contributing to global warming. They also said not to worry about it for 200 years. That article has not aged well. Your article has aged much better.
St. Louis was burning lots of coal in the 1920s and 30s. Sometimes the coal smoke would turn the sky dark in the middle of the day. There were buildings downtown covered in black soot, including City Hall.
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
Sorry, I was being kind of sarcastic. It was sort of a comment about women's contributions, particularly in male-dominated professions like science, are invisible merely because a woman achieved it (like Rosalind Franklin's significan contribution to the discovery of DNA was often glossed over.
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I think we all know that second class (marginalized) individuals are not respected, so anything they come up with is considered less credible than what Caucasian males assert as truth.
These days, the Caucasian males in power just make up whatever shit will bring in the $ and votes of the ignorant.
I've got a link to her pub embedded in my lectures on climate ... and yet I have to check my notes every year to remind myself of her name. Ok, I'm bad with names, but I don't have to do that with Isaac freaking Newton. Point is, if we don't try to remind people, nobody will remember ...
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Coal bad?
Sound Familiar ??
L'article en question se retrouve dans les archives journalistiques australiennes. Il avait été aussi republié dans revue "Popular mechanics"
À lire 👇
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/
They are like the kids who stole all the candy from the candy jar for themselves rather than share.
But now they're all grown up.
It featured autopsy photos that showed the lungs of Chicago residents were as black as those of coal miners.
https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-in-victorian-era-britain-its-effects-on-health-now-revealed-87208
I think I may have seen the Scientific American reference earlier and forgotten I had.
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Also, source link for the skeptical: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/
https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicted-global-warming/
https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152491/page/383/mode/2up?view=theater
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0066
At least once every 20 years.
And it was ignored. Each time. Even though each time it was louder and backed with more science.
Because it is inconvenient and expensive to save ourselves, and the wealthy think they'll have enough to buy themselves out at the last minute.
And claim a green credit on their tax forms. 😅
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Actually, we're weeks away from neutering every environmental law and regulation there is.
Instead of the “climate catastrophe” that it is.
That means something _is_ happening, at least since the 1970s.
..on her electric scooter!
We know that Paul Getty 3rd was responsible for killing off E-cars way back then.
Paid off Politicians! Same BS!
Clearly woke lib fake news. I bet Soros paid to have it published!
Philosophy isn’t science! It’s just ur feelings & feelings are an attack on manhood! Or western civilization, or… something.
Idk I can’t keep all their nonsense straight anymore.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/
https://bsky.app/profile/whipsticks.bsky.social/post/3lcjhxwde252c
Is it time for the guillotine yet?
sting...
Fact check: A 1912 article about burning coal and climate change is authentic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-yes-1912-article-linked-burning-coal-climate-change/8124455002/
It's ridiculous that it took so long for facts to breakthrough disinformation
If this was observable in 1912 , it should have been in general public discourse long before it was
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Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-woman-who-demonstrated-the-greenhouse-effect/
A species that should go extinct.
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These days, the Caucasian males in power just make up whatever shit will bring in the $ and votes of the ignorant.
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