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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (20392)6/3/2017 10:22:24 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 357196
 
the use of it as a tool is not a conspiracy and is recent

I suppose it depends on how you define "recent". For the fact of global warming, it has been discussed for decades. There are news reels discussing the issue from the 1950s. The media didn't really latch onto it until the early 1980s. I remember some of my friends were worried that Galveston would be flooded soon. I explained to them that it takes some time to melt enough ice...

Oceanographers were certainly aware of it in the 1970s. That was the consensus explanation of why the oceans had risen 17cm since 1900. I learned that in school during that time frame.

Now, if you mean global warming denial, that didn't start until the 1990s. In fact, the term "climate change" was popularized by Republicans because they thought the term "global warming" would spur people to action.

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