FN40 / History of Global Warming Science
The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think.
And no, global warming was not invented by Al Gore. NASA scientist James Hansen didn’t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long time, since before industrialization. In fact, it started with observations in 300 B.C.!
How did the idea for global warming and climate change start?
Find out in this episode, with a global warming history timeline assisted by Mother Jones and other news sources. It brings you right up to the present.
This was NaPodPoMo (National Podcast Post Month) episode #6, the 6th installment of my podcast marathon for the month of November.
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Tags: 1988 testimony, activism, al gore, Climate Change, copenhagen, global warming, history, james hansen, jimmy carter, NaPodPoMo, national podcast post month, politics, ronald reagan, solar panels
Have you heard of change.org? It’s a site that makes it really easy to take action on things like Global Warming. I haven’t explored it fully because it’s US centric – I live in France and you need a US address to do most things – but from what I can see it’s pretty useful and has just a slight liberal bias…
I’d really encourage any Americans reading this to “take action” on global warming on change.org and maybe start a petition to get Obama to go to Copenhagen.
Yeah, change.org is one way of getting basically Obama supporters to discuss things. Their website on global warming (the main one anyway) is at http://globalwarming.change.org/
I’ll mention it in episode #8. Thanks!
Fascinating show! I learned a lot listening to this one. I was unaware of the history behind all this.