the past is a foreign land but everything prior to like 1901 is an alien fuckin planet what the hell was going on
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![[A man running away from the camera on a dirt path]
"Daily affirmations:
-My knee is fine
-My knee does not hurt
-I am young with healthy knees
-My knee pain is just in my head
-My knee will be fine"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreiaoc5klevaa56q47pcc6oupkfblwr2zamorktwrjn67dultzjmdj4)
![On November 5 of that year, as the Keeling Curve continued to steepen, [President Lyndon] Johnson received a report from his science advisory committee. It was called “Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.”
The introduction wasted no time: “Pollutants,” it declared, “have altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide content of the air.” The report went on to say that further increases in carbon dioxide would “almost certainly cause significant changes,” and that they “could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings.” The report’s conclusion, borrowing Revelle’s words from a decade earlier, was unambiguous:
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 CO2 produced by this combustion is being injected into the atmosphere;…By the year 2000 the increase in atmospheric CO2…may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate, and will almost certainly cause significant changes in the temperature and other properties of the stratosphere.
Across the industry, fossil fuel producers took this warning seriously. In 1966, the president of Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., issued his own alert in the August issue of the Mining Congress Journal:
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. 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. Such changes in temperature will cause melting of the polar ice caps, which, in turn, would result in the inundation of many coastal cities, including New York and London.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6aybno3ecyn6tt5mzjqncsmg/bafkreidjydouxml535elb7eb7b346fxlteclcuz6n7c6xuhd3msgy2rqxa)
