AGelbert NOTE: In view of the fact that 😈
Manchin is 🦖
Coal Baron,This three year old article is even more relevant today than when it was originally published. Manchin KNOWS. He has KNOWN for DECADES!
SCIENCEALERT* November 26, 2019 By PETER DOCKRILL
Historical Discovery Shows The Coal Industry Was Well Aware of Climate Change Over 50 Years Ago
SNIPPETS:
A rediscovered journal from the 1960s reveals the
coal industry has understood the dangers of human-caused climate change for over 50 years, and
may constitute the earliest known evidence of such fateful 😈🦖 insider knowledge.It's become clear in recent years how oil giant Exxon was aware of the causes and consequences of climate change from at least the 1970s, but chose to deliberately mislead the public for decades.
The newly resurfaced evidence now shows coal executives equally understood the science of catastrophic global warming as far back as 1966. ... ...
The existence of the article was discovered in August by engineer Chris Cherry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who found it in a stack of vintage journals about to be discarded. ... ...
While much of the paper is concerned with sulphur in coal, a small section early in the article is concerned with carbon dioxide (CO2) discharge, and lays bare just how acutely appreciated the "the far-reaching aspects of the air pollution problem" actually were as far back as the 1960s.
"There is
evidence that the
amount of
carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is
increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of 🦕 fossil fuels," Garvey writes.
"
If the future rate of increase continues as it is at the present, it has been predicted that, because the CO2 envelope reduces radiation,
the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere will increase and that vast changes in the climates of the Earth will result." ... ...
Given the unfortunate,
public realities of pollution from burning coal, in the conclusion of his discussion piece, the
Peabody engineer Jones wondered:
"What can an individual with a
🦕 personal stake in the future of the coal industry do?"
Among the answers,
$ he offered this.
"Be a
'one-man' public
relations emissary for the coal industry," Jones explained to his industry colleagues.
"Tell your neighbours, friends, and the general public how
important coal is to their every-day existence. Also tell them about
the all-out cooperative efforts of the coal industry to reduce air pollution."
... ...
In the years and decades to come,
Peabody would become a huge industrial player in 😈 organised climate change denial – buying perhaps much more time than Jones had ever envisaged. ... ...
Of course, while the rediscovery of the 1966 journal is important – given it reveals the coal industry understood the climate change implications of burning fossil fuels, even so long ago – the truth is, by that point, those dangers were no secret.
The year before,
in 1965, a US science advisory committee advised president Lyndon Johnson of the global warming processes underway due to fossil fuels being burned."Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment. Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years," the report said.
"The
climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be
deleterious from the point of view of
human beings."
Even then this was old news.
The dangers of climate change literally made the front pages of newspapers as far back as 1912 – more than 100 years ago – and was written about even in the popular press as far back as the mid-19th century.
Full article:
https://www.sciencealert.com/coal-industry-knew-about-climate-change-in-the-60s-damning-revelations-show