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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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International Shipping Navigates Around CO2
Graceful cruise ships and giant container boats look so serene as they glide across the…
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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…
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Climate Change Part 12: The Keeling Curve 1961
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist who first alerted the world to the possibility…
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Climate Change Part 11: Roger Revelle Rebels 1957
It takes a special kind of person to break ranks, and challenge the basic assumptions…
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Climate Change Part 10: Gilbert Plass Warns 1956
We have chronicled several early warnings of climate change on these pages. But we have…
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Climate Change Part 8: 2 Billion Souls in 1930
The steadily increasing saturation of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere is at least in part due…