Here’s an interview from a 1956 General Electric radio program called “Excursions in Science: Climate and Industrial Activity”. As greenman, who posted this video, notes: Many climate deniers still seem to think global warming was invented by Al Gore, in 2006. As this recently uncovered recording from 1956 shows, the outlines of climate change science have been clear for many decades.
The entire video runs almost ten minutes, but the relevant portion begins at 7:47 in.
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Wow. I watched the entire video. I am not really worried, though. Eventually, mankind will become so intelligent to not only find cleaner, safer energies, but will find ways to repair the damage that has been done. Mankind’s knowledge grows by leaps and bounds every generation…I do not worry. And, even if things do not work out – who is to say that we would not adjust as a species to the global changes? This is evolution, no?
Oh we will indeed find our way to new technologies, new fuels. But we’ll pay dearly before then. Even now, low lying areas where millions of people live are suffering with more floods than ever.
Ms. Holland,
I am dismayed at how the speakers dismissed the effects of water vapor as a greenhouse gas. Then there was the mention of the ten advances and declines of the ice sheets and the change in climate caused by changes in the earth’s rotation. There are natural cycles and modern research tends to show changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2 as caused by global warming, not the other way around.
Lastly, if the Democrats really believed in global warming, they would stop blocking nuclear energy, which is the most cost effective way of replacing fossil fuels. Green energy is merely a taxpayer welfare gift to campaign contributors .
Dems aren’t blocking nuclear energy. Show me a proposal or a bill offered in any legislature to build nuclear power plants – I’m not familiar with any in the last ten years, although there may be an exception somewhere.
I understand that building a reactor takes up to ten years, safety regulations put in place since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are formidable and utility companies just won’t do it. So gov’t would have to be the builder – and owner I guess. But that’s big government and I’m sure you beleive we can’t have that!
Ms. Holland,
Perhaps I am wrong. I will have to re-research it. I do know that every time since 3 mile Island any company that tried to get approval for a nuke plant , it had low life lawyers filing law suits even faster than against Sarah Palin. Maybe those lawyers and environmental mentalists are really Conservative Republicans. Wait, it’s the coal, oil , and natural gas lobbies that keep killing atomic energy. Anyway, I will have to get proof. I am guilty of assuming again. Nuclear energy actually works, so I naturally assumed Democrats are who killed it.
Whatever the past, you can be sure that the private sector will not build any nuclear reactors – if we want them, we’ll have to build them ourselves. For many dollars, many many dollars.
Ms. Holland,
Now I remember why I assumed that Democrats are anti nukers. Greenpeace. For sure they are separate from the Democratic Party, but I am pretty sure Greenpeace voters do not vote Republican. Greenpeace is vehemently anti nuke.
Greenpeace Alan, is not an American organziation, although I’m sure many Americans are members.
Any luck finding a single pirvate utility company or venture capitalist who want to build a nuclear power plant in the US? Any?
Ms. Holland,
” Any luck finding a single pirvate utility company or venture capitalist who want to build a nuclear power plant in the US? Any? ”
This is the best relevant article I found. You are right, money is tight. Republicans would be for it if not for that.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1214/energy-power-nrg-energy-wants-revive-nuclear-industry.html
I still believe that your average run of the mill granola eating Democrat would rather have the ice caps melt and a Noah like flood before he would support any nukes anywhere in the universe.
Well, go ahead and beleive it Alan. It’s just that you’re wrong. And by the way, I HATE GRANOLA.
Ms. Holland,
So money is the only barrier to nukes, huh? Obama is for them, my GOP is for them, and now you have declared your left wing Democrats in favor. I guess Harry Reid not wanting his State to be a nuke landfill is the lone holdout.
Whatever Harry Reid wants or doesn’t want, Nevada IS the nucelar landfill. You and the other taxpayers have shelled out billions to build the site (hmmm, I guess that counts as investment in a nuclear power industry, doenns’t it, so some money was spent, but it was Fed gov’t money only – no private corps stepping up on that one).
Where is current nuclear waste being stored? We do have a few hundred plants running now – wehre is their waste going?
Money the barrier? Maybe. The cost to build and run is very high. They’d have to charge a lot for the power and that would affect the cost of everything else. I don’t think any private corp is ever going to do this – except as subcontractors to the federal government. And I hope it happens. In spite of its problems, nuclear is a logical transition power source till we figure out renewables over the next few decades+.