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To: Lane3 who wrote (111834)	5/25/2009 12:01:33 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541903

Actually, back in the day, before Frank Luntz tried to substitute Climate Change for Global Warming, we called it the Greenhouse Effect... When in 1978 the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) decided to focus its international efforts on a few selected issues, Roger chaired the AAAS group that identified the build-up of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere as one such issue. As a result, the AAAS Board created the Committee on Climate, and Roger served as its chairman for a decade. The Committee was responsible for the first effort to identify the costs and benefits of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. He received the National Medal of Science from President George Bush in 1991 for his pioneering work in the areas of carbon dioxide and climate modifications, oceanographic exploration presaging plate tectonics, and the biological effects of radiation in the marine environment, and studies of population growth and global food supplies. To a reporter asking why he got the medal, Roger (10) said, “I got it for being the grandfather of the greenhouse effect.” pnas.org Specific individuals have been identified with Atari Democrats. Al Gore's "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "greenhouse effect," linked him with other technophiles on Capitol Hill known as Atari Democrats."[3] en.wikipedia.org == When was the word global warming first used? Best Answer - Chosen by Voters I took a course in Physical Geography at University in the 1960's. Our prof. was a keen advocate of the theory that was then known as "The Greenhouse Effect."* The term Global Warming was never used by him, but his description of his theory clearly implied that. answers.yahoo.com * As in "The greenhouse effect is extremely doubtful" [Danish: Drivhuseffekten er yderst tvivlsom].