• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I know this was a joke, but I was kinda wondering when we first started talking about Climate Change as an issue.

    It looks like some guy in Sweden named ‘Svante Arrhenius’ was the first to really get everything properly worked out and documented back in 1896, but the first time it really started to go mainstream seems like it was with ‘economist William Nordhaus’ back in 1975 just feeling like it might be starting to become a real problem.

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      6 days ago

      I was kinda wondering when we first started talking about Climate Change as an issue.

      Depends on what you mean by ‘we’.

      Exxon knew about it in the 70s and is said to have predicted the results with “shocking” accuracy.