From Edward Fullbrook A version of this graph appeared in yesterday’s Guardian. I have a vivid memory from almost exactly half a century ago that relates to it. It was February 1970 and snowing. It was rural Wisconsin in the States and I was riding in a car with a woman who was the mother of six and a well-known peace activist but with no connection to science or environmentalism. We were coming from Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate Taliesin where I lived, and as we neared Madison and got caught in a traffic jam, my friend said, “That man in the car in front of us is one of the scientists who says we are increasing the Earth’s temperature.” As the decades passed, my friend’s words became a milestone for me because they mark a point when the fact that the world’s economy was heating up
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from Edward Fullbrook
A version of this graph appeared in yesterday’s Guardian. I have a vivid memory from almost exactly half a century ago that relates to it. It was February 1970 and snowing. It was rural Wisconsin in the States and I was riding in a car with a woman who was the mother of six and a well-known peace activist but with no connection to science or environmentalism. We were coming from Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate Taliesin where I lived, and as we neared Madison and got caught in a traffic jam, my friend said, “That man in the car in front of us is one of the scientists who says we are increasing the Earth’s temperature.”
As the decades passed, my friend’s words became a milestone for me because they mark a point when the fact that the world’s economy was heating up the Earth had already become common everyday conversational knowledge. But now look again at that graph. What have we done with that knowledge?