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When did Global Warming first become a concern?

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Can you please give the year that the New York Times first ran an article on Global Warming?

If you are really after the points, also provide the year that the New York Times first ran an article on Global Cooling.

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  1. around 1930


  2. I did find this gem is the NYT.  

    Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea; Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap

    By WALTER SULLIVAN

    February 20, 1969, Thursday

    Page 20, 1691 words

    Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.

    Glad we dodged that doomsday bullet.  DejaVu.

  3. When Gore made it up.

  4. My mom said it was a concern in 2000 but it has been warming since back in 0000'.

  5. It's a concern?

  6. I believe it was, Friday May 30, 1947.

    "Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says. - By GLADWIN HILL"

    not sure, but worth a try

  7. '56; Scientist hypothosises that increasing levels of carbon in the atmosphere from industrialisation will cause an increase in global temperatures.

  8. Jan 2, 2000 - Right after the Y2K computer bug bust.

  9. when i farted

  10. I would guess around 1800.

  11. A good read from NASA that will explain...

    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/featur...

  12. Global warming is a fad.............the earth has been warming for over 10,000 years.

    In fact, it is because of global warming that the last ice age ended...............

  13. ..............idk

  14. Well average Joe probably began to realise this in 2006/2007 when it started to get more press coverage, plus the IPCC and Al Gore got the Noble peace prize for elaborating on the topic in 2007 - but probably in the early 90s/late 80s for the New York Times.

  15. year ago i head about it at the beginning of highschool... i'm 22 now
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