This month, the world celebrated 50 years since the first moonwalk. But 2019 marks another important anniversary for life on Earth. 🌎🌎🌎 40 years after the Charney Report on #ClimateChange, Nevile Nicholls @ConversationEDU surveys its legacy. theconversation.com/40-years…

40 years ago, scientists predicted climate change. And hey, they were right

Scientists introduced credible climate change to the world in 1979, but it’s taken decades for their message to sink in.

theconversation.com

Jul 26, 2019 · 7:07 AM UTC

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So 40 years ago they also predicted that China & India, dormant & poor, would resurrect into advanced countries spewing tons of pollutants and carbon dioxide?
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One can “liked” 💚 a tweet and not “liked” 🖤what it mentions: climate change is not an fascinating perspective...
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And this report / alert came from the USA 🇺🇸...
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skepticalscience.com/LBJ-cli… + Svante Arrhenius had anticipated it at the beginning of the 20th century (fun fact : it is said that Greta Thunberg is related to him)