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Unchained Goddess--climate change Frank Capra message 1958
Unchained Goddess--climate change Frank Capra message 1958
Mentioned by Guy Mv\cPherson, who sees in the forthcoming 6th extinction of humanity an opportunity to be our best.
Date: 5/17/2014 9:51:50 AM ( 10 y ) ... viewed 874 times Unchained Goddess--climate change Frank Capra message 1958
http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/2010/12/unchained-goddess-frank-capra-knew/
You might think from the amount of “climate science debate” that is given airtime in the U.S. media that it’s undiscovered territory. But it’s not. The science is very well established and goes back a long way. Global warming is not a new concept.
The Victorians knew about it. John Tyndall (born 1820) knew about it. So did Svante August Arrhenius. In April 1896, Arrhenius published a paper in the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science entitled “On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground.” (Arrhenius referred to carbon dioxide as “carbonic acid” in accordance with the convention of the time.)
Arrhenius’ paper was the first to quantify how carbon dioxide contributed to the greenhouse effect — carbon dioxide warms up the Earth by trapping heat near the surface, a bit like swaddling the planet in an extra blanket. Arrhenius was also the first to speculate about whether changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have contributed to long-term variations in Earth’s climate. He later made the link between burning fossil fuels and global warming.
Another person who “knew” some time ago was Frank Capra. Graduating from Caltech in 1918, he went on to become a famous filmmaker responsible for “It’s a Wonderful Life” and other movies. But one that stands out, at least for nerds like me or people with an interest in climate change is “Meteora: The Unchained Goddess”, released in 1958:
- See more at: http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/2010/12/unchained-goddess-frank-capra-knew/#sthash.pZ4IkYQq.dpuf
7:51 am
May 17, 2014
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