The report, The long term impact of carbon dioxide on climate was issued in 1979, by the JASON advisory group. JASON is an independent group of elite scientists which advises the United States government on matters of science and technology, mostly of a sensitive nature, in the following some highlights. ScienceFriday: Since dry ice is…
In 1971, during the cold war era and the Vietnam war gaining more attention, Penthouse magazine published an essay from Isaac Asimov, titled The End. Triumf wrote a review on that article, which can be read here. While Asimov’s main issue in this article is about addressing population growth, and indeed the following year in…
1969 Scientists Caution on Changes In Climate as Result of Pollution The New York Times (December 21, 1969) Scientists have warned the human race that it is running the risk of allowing pollution to destroy life in the oceans and to alter the earth’s climate by raising temperatures. E.D. Goldberg, an oceanographic chemist, told a…
Cutting, loading, transportation, mill sawing and finishing operations of the Northern California’s redwood lumber industry. https://archive.org/details/RedwoodS1940
Pollution Below presents stories of three widely separated people who are caught up in situations caused by unexpected pollution. https://archive.org/details/pollution_below Further reading: Industries like steel mills emit particles that act as ice-forming nuclei (a particle which acts as the nucleus for the formation of an ice crystal) into the atmosphere. These may encourage snowstorms. The…
Extreme weather events and other disasters, and what to do were discussed in the late 50s and 70s, including the consideration of climate change (1958), or more broadly pollution (1972). This short presents a compilation of historic disaster documentary style film footage. Climate Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY Your Chance to Live:…
A discussion of sea level, what it is, how it is determined and factors that influence sea level at various locations on the Earth.
Monthly averages from January 1979 – 2014 (Jan). Data source via the Polar Science Center (University of Washington) URL. Data visualisation by Andy Lee Robinson. Arctic Death Spiral by Andy Lee Robinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral.png. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may…
Landmark Report of an Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate – Woods Hole, Massachusetts to the Climate Research Board, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Washington, D.C. 1979 We have examined the principal attempts to simulate the effects of increased atmospheric CO2 on climate.…
