The first scientific paper that showed it was actually happening was in 1955. But it did not get a lot of scientific attention, and got no public attention. It was Wallace Broeker's article in 1975 that caused many to pay attention. The paper was titled "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" and that was the first use of the term "Global Warming." The wording was much more visual and catchy than terms that climatologist were using before that, terms such as "inadvertent climate modification". I learned about Global Warming a few years later in college in 1979. I thought that everyone was aware, but obviously I was wrong. It was a full decade later before the UN created the IPCC to assess all the available research and the topic got a little more attention in scientific circles. But still the media ignored it and the public was largely unaware. That's why Al Gore began his lecture tour, to raise awareness. But the public still did not become aware of what climatologist had learned until Davis Guggenheim made his movie from Gore's lectures. That was released in 2006. It was really that film that made people aware of what was learned more than 50 years earlier.
Just at about the time Communism was so thoroughly discredited, even the most delusional academic had to admit that maybe just maybe it didn't work and the Workers Paradise and 'each according to his means' ( except more for us,of course) was hokum
that the intellectual left needed another hook to frighten the masses and to hold onto power,,,,at least in academia. Shameful politicians....yes, I know, redundant, also needing to hold onto power, grabbed the academic hysteria and have terrified two generations of children onto believing their drek.
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."
Before this, scientists comprised mainly of honest people. People who were content learning true science. (I am excluding people like 'DR JONES' snake oil salesmen) But then there came about a vast array of shysters in the field. Just look at Paul Ehrlich who made great profits from a utterly useless book.
Once these shysters correctly figured on the stupidity or naive trusting of the people, they went to work in earnest. Previous to that they were hawking an Imminent Ice Age based on CO2. So they took the tried and proven formula of Goebbels and went to work. No one can deny that these shysters have had success in their endeavors.
With respect to Baccheus ... you're referring to Americans.
The rest of the world has been 'aware' of climate change for more than two decades. Just like WWII, the US is late to the party. And not fashionably ...
in the late 70's, when the physics of CO2 was known in the 1800's was it just because of the climate warming from 1975 to 1999 or were there other reasons of why it became a concern?
