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Declassified documents show Nixon warned of global warning 30 years ago - NY Daily News
YORBA LINDA, Calif. Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention.
There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration's Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.
"The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between," he wrote. "One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise."
Nixon Era Global Warming Memo Early Example of Hysteria - Yahoo Voices - voices.yahoo.com
What does the revelation of the Moynihan memo tell us? The obvious take away from the story is that one ought to look upon predictions of doom, whether they come from religious leaders such as Harold Camping or imminent scientists and government bureaucrats, with some degree of skepticism. This is especially true if the proposed solution to the postulated problem involves the expenditure of large amounts of money and extensive and unpleasant disruptions of the lifestyles of the majority of people.
Great post. You'll get zero response from the peanut gallery. Call it an inconvienient truth.
3.5degC and 10 FEET of sea level by 2000... That's what Moynihan warned Nixon about in 1969. No -- there's NEVER been hysterical exaggerations or phoney predictions.
Declassified documents show Nixon warned of global warning 30 years ago - NY Daily News
YORBA LINDA, Calif. Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention.
There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration's Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.
"The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between," he wrote. "One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise."
And today -- we at the same state of affairs on Government Action on Global Warming. Wonder why??
Discuss Dot Com ------
3.5degC and 10 FEET of sea level by 2000... That's what Moynihan warned Nixon about in 1969. No -- there's NEVER been hysterical exaggerations or phoney predictions.
Declassified documents show Nixon warned of global warning 30 years ago - NY Daily News
YORBA LINDA, Calif. Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention.
There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration's Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.
"The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between," he wrote. "One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise."
And today -- we at the same state of affairs on Government Action on Global Warming. Wonder why??
Discuss Dot Com ------
Do you believe no modification to our current relation with the environment is needed?
3.5degC and 10 FEET of sea level by 2000... That's what Moynihan warned Nixon about in 1969. No -- there's NEVER been hysterical exaggerations or phoney predictions.
And today -- we at the same state of affairs on Government Action on Global Warming. Wonder why??
Discuss Dot Com ------
Do you believe no modification to our current relation with the environment is needed?
I'm convinced the Global Warming whackos has hijacked the entire momentum of enviro tasks that need to be done. And because of them -- no other pressing enviro topic can rise to public debate. And I resent that. PLENTY of issues need attention. NONE of them can get a hearing because of gigantic turd clogging the bowl..
What other issue(s) are you referring to?
Do you believe no modification to our current relation with the environment is needed?
I'm convinced the Global Warming whackos has hijacked the entire momentum of enviro tasks that need to be done. And because of them -- no other pressing enviro topic can rise to public debate. And I resent that. PLENTY of issues need attention. NONE of them can get a hearing because of gigantic turd clogging the bowl..
What other issue(s) are you referring to?
I see several points to this thread
1. Scientists were correct in the Nixon days. The science has been remarkably consistent.
2. Most deniers are capable of nothing but alarmism.
3. Flac sucks at reading comprehension. There was no prediction of a 10 foot sea level rise by 2000, only a prediction of a CO2 rise, which was entirely correct. Flac here created a hysterics thread based on his inability to parse simple English, and other deniers also jumped on the same idiot bandwagon.
So Flac, will you admit your screwup here, or double down on it and move yourself into the realm of deliberate liar?
<<Letter from Moynihan>> "There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
I see several points to this thread
1. Scientists were correct in the Nixon days. The science has been remarkably consistent.
2. Most deniers are capable of nothing but alarmism.
3. Flac sucks at reading comprehension. There was no prediction of a 10 foot sea level rise by 2000, only a prediction of a CO2 rise, which was entirely correct. Flac here created a hysterics thread based on his inability to parse simple English, and other deniers also jumped on the same idiot bandwagon.
So Flac, will you admit your screwup here, or double down on it and move yourself into the realm of deliberate liar?
Sane folks would disagree with the underachiever interpretation of these notes now enshrined in the Nixon Library...
Sane folks would disagree with the underachiever interpretation of these notes now enshrined in the Nixon Library...
That's what I just said!
Sane folks DO disagree with your retarded misinterpretations of the material you cited. But then you're an insane retard, so your crackpot misunderstandings are not surprising.
