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Edward Teller Warned Oil Industry About Carbon Dioxide & Climate Change 6 Decades Ago


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2018 Jan 7, 3:24pm   1,761 views  8 comments

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1   Shaman   2018 Jan 7, 3:32pm  

“It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York.”



So we raised atmospheric CO2 by not 10%, but 25% since 1950, and New York City somehow remains above sea level, the polar ice caps remain frozen, and this guy proves that calculations only matter when one has good data. Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) even in 1959.
2   Shaman   2018 Jan 7, 3:34pm  

Also holy fuck those are some serious eyebrows!
3   mell   2018 Jan 7, 3:35pm  

Not disputing that there is an effect, but these prognostications remind me of the club of rome which calls for mankind's extinctions every decade or so. The dying of the forests, polar bears and what not. Agree that you have to have very good data to make such a bold call.
4   CBOEtrader   2018 Jan 7, 3:36pm  

6 decades ago the scientific community was fixated on global cooling.

Edward Teller was a science denier.
5   CBOEtrader   2018 Jan 7, 3:58pm  

anonymous says
While were on climate change...


I suggest you differentiate between pollution and climate change. Throwing everything into the same basket is part of the problem.

The pollution and destruction we are are affecting on our oceans is terrible.
6   MrMagic   2018 Jan 7, 3:59pm  

anonymous says
Today, carbon dioxide has hit 420 parts per million and is rising rapidly.


Really? Too bad he's wrong, it's only 407 right now.



I also wonder what his definition of "rising rapidly" is? Look at the two year chart above. Looks pretty stable.
7   RWSGFY   2018 Jan 7, 4:07pm  

If only we banned automobiles and went back to horse and buggy right then and there....
8   anonymous   2018 Jan 7, 8:32pm  

"I won't believe any of this until after it has happened. Even then it might be fake news, because possibly libbie scientists will have created some simulation that they put me in making it appear that the oceans have risen 6 feet and populations of entire countries are disrupted. It's a liberal conspiracy I tell ya, I just know it !"

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