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Climate Change Part 21: Kyoto – a Tide Half Taken 1997
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,” William Shakespeare wrote in 1599. “Which…
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Climate Change Part 20: The IPCC’s Second Assessment 1996
The environmental bells tolled again when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its…
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Climate Change Part 19: The 1992 Earth Summit
There was not much to rejoice over with the environment, when the world entered 1992.…
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Climate Change Part 18: 6 Billion Tons of Carbon 1990
Annual global carbon emissions from burning coal grew steadily from the 1800’s through to the…
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Climate Change Part 17: Margaret Thatcher Warns 1990
The United Nations set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the request…
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Climate Change Part 16: The Ozone Layer 1987
1987 was not a good year for Earth spinning in space. The human population had…
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Climate Change Part 15: Ocean Conveyor Belt 1975
Several things happened that increased our interest in climate change in 1975. However, for the…
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Batteries Are Killing Carbon But Not to The Point of Extinction
We live in the technological era where batteries define performance, and signal convenience. Batteries go…
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Climate Change Part 14: 1972 UN Conference
International politics was a mess when Sweden suggested the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment…
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Climate Change Part 13: Signs of Concern 1965
The media hardly remarked when global population reached 3 billion in 1960. Because news of…