I’ve been doing some library research recently and saw issues of Nature dating back before 1900. I grabbed a random issue from ~1970 and browsed thru it. Found an article saying we shouldn’t worry about co2. Don’t worry, nuke power will be coming on strong by 2000. We’ll only have an 18% rise in co2 (rise to date has been ~15%, so they were on with this figure). Hell, we think the ocean will soak up all the co2 pretty quick anyway, but if it becomes a problem, we’ll just cut down on the fossil fuels. Cake. Wait.. reality check.. this ain’t so easy! Hard to figure how to slow down fossil fuel intake, either in booming nations like china and
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Nature, 1970: don't worry about co2
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Interesting that even the Nature writers didn't have a grasp of the magnitude of the problem.
Maybe if we'd really been more into nuclear by now, the CO2 problem would be less severe.
Hey, at least they believed back then that CO2 would negatively impact the earth's climate. Lots of people still don't.
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