What we knew about climate change in 1958
This is a clip from a Bell Labs film "The Unchained Goddess", produced by Frank Capra in 1958. Science for school kids, almost 60 years ago. Give it a watch, it's only a minute and a half.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg]
http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/447
Dr. Frank C. Baxter: “Because with our present knowledge we have no idea what would happen. Even now, man may be unwittingly changing the world’s climate through the waste products of his civilization. Due to our release through factories and automobiles every year of more than six billion tons of carbon dioxide, which helps air absorb heat from the sun, our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer."
Richard Carlson: "This is bad?"
Dr. Frank C. Baxter: "Well, it's been calculated a few degrees rise in the Earth’s temperature would melt the polar ice caps. And if this happens, an inland sea would fill a good portion of the Mississippi valley. Tourists in glass bottom boats would be viewing the drowned towers of Miami through 150 feet of tropical water. For in weather, we’re not only dealing with forces of a far greater variety than even the atomic physicist encounters, but with life itself."
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Deniers Still Won't Understand
. . .even when the ocean swallows them up.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
The worst deniers near/in my life
..... are from Texas
s. One of the worst affected locales now, and the single State due to lose the most land area to rising sea levels.WTF, over??
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
WTF, you ask?
One of my favorite denigrations of Texans has to do with the state being filled with steers and homosexuals. Steers tend to be the bulls culled from the herd for being unsuitable for breeding. There is a huge business in buying these bulls, so it isn't much of a transition for them to succumb to dominionist blandishments to their biases. Thus, in all phases of the Texas lifestyle, BUYbull is at the center.
Thank you. Tip your waitress, for she doesn't get an hourly wage.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
I live in Texas
Sadly, I believe it is the fundamentalist evangelical preachers who are to blame. The history of racism doesn't help either.
A large percentage of the population attends this type of church here. They are taught that if they go against their pastor, they are consorting with the devil. Religious propaganda rules.
Underneath that foggy religious layer . . . my friends anyway, pretty much hold the same opinions as I do.
Funny to listen to people at the store talking about the large amounts of rain . . . "well - this is Texas - we always do things bigger in Texas" . . .
They are currently busily happily rebuilding the roads that were washed out with 20 inches in October, and keep being re-washed out. I wonder when the $$$$ enormous cost of road and bridge repair is finally going to slap them in the face.
Video attached is Paul Beckwith. I think he does a great job of explaining what is going on. The el nino' and the wacked out jet stream are giving us floods in Texas, with drought/fire in Canada.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
A science movie for the kids ;->
[video:https://youtu.be/sqClSPWVnNE]
I remember seeing that on b/w TV
It would be nearly another decade before we would get a color set. One of these years I'll have to try catching up on what I missed.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Great clip!
We have known a long time. Much like tobacco. You might enjoy re-seeing this 1.5 min clip. But money doesn't talk, it swears. Thanks for the video...I saved it.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Before I was born.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I was taught about global warming in 1976.
I was an environmental studies major and in one of my classes we went over the impact of the ever increasing co2 in the atmosphere. At the time there was speculation that this would greatly increase plant growth offsetting some, if not all, of the negative influence. So, yeah, we've known about this issue for a long long time. Shame on us for doing nothing.
Enjoy every sandwich. (ripwz)
I seem to recall listening to
Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov talk about the threat of CO2 raising the temperature of the Earth at great length. He cited research done by several individuals, and indicated that statistics showed there was already a small change. I think this would have been in the eighties?
People have been talking about it for a very long time. It's taken a great deal of money being spent by the oil industry to constantly call into question.