When did scientist start to take an interest in global warming?

Question

Like when did they first say "Hey the earth is getting hotter!" and start researching more into it?

I'm doing a research paper on Global Warming and cant seem to find this answer.

Any awsome Global Warming websites you know of would help too! Thanks!

Answer 1

They actually became interested even before temperatures started going up.  Arrhenius and Tyndall first studied greenhouse gases in the 19th century.  Guy Callendar proposed heating due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission in the 1930's.  Roger Revelle was aware of this potential and hired David Keeling to do measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1956. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came into being in 1988, and issue reports on the state of the climate every few years.

Answer 2

Well i think  its been talk for a few years. But, it didn't get big till about a year ago... Or something like that..  But in imp Global Warming is happening SO SLOWLY that it's not going to matter...

Hope I Helped!

Answer 3

when people started getting sick.

when we started having hotter seasons.

when ice glaciers melted at an alarming rate.

when man opened their eyes.

Answer 4

some where discussing and researching it in the 60 ties that i know of,Like Bill Mollison. and David Holmgren

It was the escalating environmental problems that motivated them to give birth to Permaculture

Answer 5

Tell you what I will use no more then Al Gore would use lol so I guess I'm doing ok...look the only one that is telling you that is the ones that use 100 time more carton then us... geez maybe they should cut back first not us..well if they do then I will buy a goat to cut my grass.I do not think what we do would matter as much as what they are doing.

Answer 6

Immediately following the global cooling scare on the 1970s.

It accelerated while Al Gore was a Senator.

Answer 7

It is propaganda. It is just like global cooling from the seventies and global warming from the fifties. It just isn't real.

Answer 8

Be sure to read the questions at the end!!

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> Into the wild green yonder

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> May 11, 2008

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> By Walter E. Williams - Now that another Earth Day has come and gone,

> let's look at some environmentalists' predictions they would prefer we

> forget.

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> At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel

> Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside

> nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for

> mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said,

> "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and

consistent enough

> that it will not soon be reversed."

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> In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, former Vice President Al Gore's hero

> and mentor, predicted a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the

> 1970s... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."

> Mr. Ehrlich forecast 65 million Americans would die of starvation

> between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have

> declined to 22.6 million. Mr. Ehrlich's predictions about England were

> gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England

> will not exist in the year 2000."

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> In 1972, a report for the Club of Rome warned the world would run out

> of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and

> petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992.

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> Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said

Americans

> were using 50 percent of the world's resources and "by 2000 they

> [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them."

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> In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The

> World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."

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> Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "civilization

> will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken

> against problems facing mankind." That was the same year Sen. Gaylord

> Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75

> and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."

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> It's not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers

> have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced

> there was "little or no chance" of oil being discovered in California,

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and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In

> 1939, the U.S. Interior Department said American oil supplies would

> last only another 13 years. In 1949, the interior secretary said the

> end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight.

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> Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the

> U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year

> supply of natural gas. In fact,, according to the American Gas

> Association, there's a 1,000- to 2,500-year supply.

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> Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making

> predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and

> millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government

> policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity?

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> When Mr. Ehrlich predicted England would not exist in the

year 2000,

> what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent

> such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the Interior Department warned we

> only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should

> President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think

> environmental alarmism is any more correct now the tune has been

> switched to manmade global warming?

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> Here are a few facts: More than 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is

> the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the

> greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees

> Fahrenheit. Most climate change is due to the orbital eccentricities

> of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural

> wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all

> human sources combined.

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> Walter

E. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist and a

> professor of economics at George Mason University.

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Answer 9

WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT ASKED THEM TO WORK FOR OUR GOVERNMENT.

Answer 10

The first scientist to suggest the theory was Svante Arrhenius in the late 1800's.

And don't listen to rabendan or any of those other ignoramuses. No one was suggesting an Ice Age two years ago. The earth goes through cycles but that doesn't mean any temperature anomaly is perfectly ok. etc. etc. What an idiot.

Answer 11

The Inception of the Global Warming movement and Scientists Involved:

http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/20...

You won't read or understand this if you did.

Answer 12

look up James Hansen.

he was pointing it out 20-30 years ago.

it was only under the Bush administration that he was censored, and not allowed to talk about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanse...

<<Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.>>

here's a few sites.

i have lots more, if you're interested.

Answer 13

Check out the book "Environmental Overkill" (1974).

It will give you some history and is very informative.

Answer 14

Why they figured out a way to make money from it!

* There is no "scientific consensus" on global warming

* Climate is always changing – with or without man

* The Medieval Warm Period was significantly warmer than temperatures today – and was a golden age for agriculture, innovation, and lifespan

* Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder

* Hurricanes are not getting worse – our tendency to build houses in their path is getting greater

* Many big businesses lobby for global warming policies that will increase their profits – and our costs

* The media only recently abandoned the "global cooling" scare

* The real agenda behind the "global warming" scare? A massive expansion of government control over the economy and our lives

Answer 15

Go rent "An Inconvienent Truth" by Al Gore.  It's a documentary about Global Warming and will tell you everything you need to know.

Answer 16

Since Al Gore has millions and millions of dollars, he wrote a book, claiming phony scientific evidence of GW,  Cost him millions to start one of the world's biggest con jobs, GW.  But he stands to make trillions, and can not prove not one thing that he claims are facts.  That is how it got started. Thank goodness there are a lot more smart people in the world than he thought there was.

Answer 17

scientists have always been interested in "global warming"  but the world isn't  getting hotter because of cars and what not.  its just a political joke to get people to obey.   it's just a theory doesn't have any real proof behind it.  and the world is not "heating up"  it goes through cycles  remember 2 years ago when they said we would have another ice age?  global warming doesn't exist...again it's just a cycle the earth goes through them all the time. OH and Al gore is an idiot...hes not even a real scientist.  it's all a political joke (they want to see if people will really believe them)

Answer 18

since your doing a project on global warming do it right, go to this link of another question that was asked and read the best answer and the other ones, it is very informative and truthful.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...