{"id":136479,"date":"2010-01-04T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-04-climate-science-is-older-and-better-established-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T20:48:34","slug":"climate-science-is-older-and-better-established-than-you-think-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136479","title":{"rendered":"Climate science is older and better established than you think [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tby David Roberts <\/p>\n

“Climategate” or “Swifthack” or whatever you call the hubbub about the stolen climate science emails seems to have faded from public discussion, as I expected it would. Every time a new one of these frenzies gets started, climate activists panic, climate skeptics crow that they’ve finally won, and then the whole thing fizzles. Wash, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, though, if you’re still interested, NRDC has put together a brief video responding to the fuss:<\/p>\n

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As the video says, the basics of climate science have been well-understood and accepted for almost a century now. Along those lines, check out this amazing video Andy Revkin unearthed. He intros it like so:<\/p>\n

The basic idea, of course, goes back more than a century, but the real number crunching started in the 1950s, and even drew the attention of the filmmaker Frank Capra, who produced a series of television programs on science (in the post-Sputnik days when science was a high priority<\/a>), that included “The Unchained Goddess<\/a>,” a remarkable 1958 film on weather and climate. It contained a section on greenhouse-driven warming:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Check out Andy’s post to see an NYT article from 1956 on the work of scientist Gilbert Plass, who was remarkably prescient.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, suffice to say, it was only when the modern corporatist right’s political agenda was threatened that it suddenly decided the science was suspect. If our political culture had a memory longer than a gnat’s, we wouldn’t be taking them so seriously every time they come up with a new pseudo-scandal.<\/p>\n

Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time to bust the filibuster<\/a><\/p>\n

Senate’s chief climate denier makes Copenhagen cameo<\/a><\/p>\n

Overwhelming U.S. public support for global warming action<\/a><\/p>\n

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