And this is when the topic was published by a newspaper.
If memory serves, the fist scientific publications were from the 1880s.The German Federal Public Radio (Deutschland Funk) has a Radio Documentary Series, about particular historical Topics called “Der Rest ist Geschichte”. Mostly academic experts explain the topics from the academic view for “common” people. They made a interesting one about the History of the Knowledge about the climate crisis.
Aus der Dlf App | Der Rest ist Geschichte | Klima und Krise – Seit wann wir von der Erderwärmung wissen https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_15dd044f
Afaik there is no English version :<
1&1/10th is indeed a very few centuries.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
WARKWORTH was Wokewarth, am I right?
just could not imagine the scale at which human civilization would escalate. Apart from that, spot on.
That’s like 30 years after the concept was first understood. Even now the concept is downplayed so people don’t reject it outright
And even today, almost no one truly understands the implications of exponential growth… I’d give them full marks
To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.
It’s a good thing someone noticed this back then, and the world dumped the coal industry. Imagine how fucked we’d be now if this was completely ignored.
Why did they not print the whole of ‘Affecting’ on a new line, that’s bothering me
Liang hadn’t made his hyphenation algorithm yet :(
Humanity: Hold my pint.
Gramma was a toddler.
That was peobably fairly accurate at that time.
Look at the historical data here:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
BTW, the large recent drop in co2 emissions, covid.
Whenever I think about this article, I think about how they could not have possibly known how emissions would grow, and they were perfectly reasonable to frame it this way. And if things stayed at that rate, we would have been able to do something about it so easily when we started getting worried
I never thought I’d say this, but looks like we need more pandemics!
This is actually a thought that some climate deniers have. “Climate change is a hoax to control you, covid was the trial run”.
Unsurprisingly, the people who say that publicly tend to be funded by oil.
Why doesn’t anyone ever think COVID was sent by God to give us a reprieve and a chance to get our act together, which we’re now squandering?
Good news! We’re continuing to shit on our biodiversity safety net.
“large”… If only. Barely a drop in the bucket.
Chat, is this real?
Only one century has passed since then, so we’re still good. It’s pollutin’ time!
Idk why but captain planet popped up in my head when I read the last sentence.
While kicking The can down the road, you come across a sign.
BRIDGE OUT AHEAD
What do you do?
- Continue kicking the can, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- I don’t believe in bridges.
- Even if God let the bridge collapse, which he wouldn’t, I’ll go to heaven if I fall and die, so who cares?
- Pick up the can and go find a dumpster.
- There’s squirrels in my pants! Jump to safety!
Oh how right/wrong they were… 😮
At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decade after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.
What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically
interestingly enough in the early 1900 there were more electric cars than ICEs in north america
That’s so cool to know! Oh wait I mean hot, and also not, well anyway thanks for sharing:-P.
