Global warming, and how to combat it, has provoked intense debate, changed the way we see the planet and created headlines around the world. But when and how did scientists first discover global warming, why has it led to such furious debate and who should we believe?
PART ONE – The Battle Begins
In the 1970s the world seemed to be falling apart. From acid rain to overpopulation, ecological concerns were at the fore. And it was at this time that climate change first became a hot political issue. But it wasn’t global warming that frightened scientists, it was the complete opposite; a new ice age.
Dr Iain Stewart traces the history of climate change from its very beginning and examines just how the scientific community managed to get it so very wrong back in the Seventies. Along the way he uncovers some of the great unsung heroes of climate change science, and introduces us to a secret organisation of American government scientists, known as Jason, who wrote the first official report on global warming as far back as 1979.
He shows how – by the late 1980s – global warming had already become a serious political issue. It looked as if the world was uniting to take action. But it turned out to be a false dawn. Because in the 1990s global warming would be transformed into one of the biggest scientific controversies of our age.
I don’t need any scientist, politician or any idiot Fox News reporter to tell me about climate change, my 52 years on this earth and the differences I see daily in the flora and fauna around my neck of the woods…climate change is real and I live in an area with the highest cancer rates around due to the damage done by coal companies. Climate change is real and this is not natural, this is a man-made crisis. If we continue to allow the billionaires and the Fox News crowd buy off our politicians and brainwash those without brains…we are heading for terribly dark times.
Thank you! You articulated my every thought!
In the 70’s the overwhelming majority of climate scientists were projecting rapid warming not cooling.
Only 7 papers suggesting a return to an ice age was possible were published during the entire 15 year period from 1965 to 1980.
Just another myth from the fossil fuel lobby sucked up by the useful idiots.
Agreed!
watch this http://youtu.be/SI5ulKiZAoE
As anyboby in the UK who takes the slightest notice of TV “news” will know, the BBC is a shameless propaganda machine for the carbon tax scammers and has openly admitted several times that it will not allow balanced coverage so nothing they say on the subject of AWG can be trusted. If I was still living in the UK I would refuse to pay the licence fee. We should not be forced to pay to be force fed lies. For anyone who still believes the BBC is impartial, please have a look over this site:
http://biasedbbc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hotair
As anyboby in the UK who takes the slightest notice of TV “news” will know, the BBC is a shameless propaganda machine for the carbon tax scammers and has openly admitted several times that it will not allow balanced coverage so nothing they say on the subject of AWG can be trusted. If I was still living in the UK I would refuse to pay the licence fee. We should not be forced to pay to be force fed lies. For anyone who still believes the BBC is impartial, please have a look over this site:
http://biasedbbc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hotair
Down with BBC