Oh Wow... '1958 - Global Warming - It's NOT newly known' - From The People Who Brought You 'Hemo'

[WillyT]

Doing a little more surfing on all things 'Hemo', I stumbled across this!!!

Link (Video clip = 1 min 18 sec): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg&feature=PlayList&p=5E95721E6ECC4273&index=13

They sure as hell didn't show us THAT one in Elementary school!

:wow:

[SpiralHawk]

1. Wow - the K and R

I just saw the film 2012 last night, and some of the footage in this amazing clip is directly reminiscent of the scenes in that Hollywood blockbuster.

[jwirr]

2. That is interesting - too bad no one was listening back then. nt

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Have you watched "Our Mr. Sun"? it's LOADED with goodies

from 1956. . . . . . . .

[HopeHoops]

14. I just downloaded the 1.8 GB file - took over 2 hours!

Slow transfer rate from the server.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. This hadn't registered on Big Oil's radar screen yet

They must not have seen much of a threat to their way of doing business, as they didn't start bankrolling climate-change denial pseudoscience for several more years.

[Quantess]

25. Exactly. (no text)

[omega minimo]

5. "This is Ba-AD?"

[valerief]

6. They knew then and didn't care. Just like now. nt

[Systematic Chaos]

7. This has been posted here at least once before, but it is something which bears repeating!

K&R and off to the Greatest Page.

[Tansy_Gold]

23. April 24, 2008

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3281287#3282255

[mitchtv]

8. wasn't 1958 IGY?

International Geophysical Year I seem to remember that from Grammar school

[Odin2005]

12. That was actually extended to TWO years, just to nitpick.

:P

[swilton]

9. We don't need more knowledge - or studies

We need political will

[FormerDittoHead]

10. ...also - there are these things called "solar cells" which convert sunlight into electricity!

I remember seeing this (or was it on Hemo?) and asked myself why, if they had this 50 years ago, hasn't been more done with that technology?

[Tansy_Gold]

22. That's from Our Mr. Sun, starring Eddie Albert, Dr. Frank Baxter and the voices

of Lionel Barrymore (Father Time) and Marvin Miller (Mr. Sun, as well as the role of Michael Anthony on "The Millionaire") and Sterling Holloway (Chloro Phyll).

[Jamastiene]

11. They probably told that scientist he was a crackpot back then.

I'm glad he still spoke his mind. I just wish someone had listened. I wish more people would listen now.

K&R

[Odin2005]

13. But, but, it's a LIBERAL CONSPIRACY!!!

:sarcasm:

[Uncle Joe]

15. Fascinating, I wonder if the producer is the same Frank Capra that produced

"It's A Wonderful Life"?

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.:thumbsup:

[WillyT]

17. The Very Same One!!!

List of movies he directed...

Link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001008/

:hi:

[SheilaT]

16. I recall reading a very long time ago

that around the end of WWII we came out of an unusually mild and temperate (in terms of not a whole lot of weather variation) at least in this country. And that what we could look forward to was higher highs, lower lows, more storms, more drought conditions, more abnormal rain conditions, and so on. We would be facing a more uncertain weather future, in short.

I probably read this by the mid 1960's, have no idea where, just something in some sort of mainstream media, but I've always remembered it and have often told others of this. So the knowledge of climate change, if not actual global warming, has been out there for about a half century.

Remember the very cold back to back winters in the mid-70's when everyone was panicking over an imminent ice age? That was simply another aspect of the uncertain weather thing.

[Deja Q]

18. I knew that info before it became popular. It has been theorized for decades,

but turned into marketing sensationalistic drivel...

Guess who truly deserves the award?

[Canuckistanian]

19. That had everything

The CO2 holding the heat in, the ice caps and glaciers melting, the dramatic rise in sea levels - and man causing it.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Al Gore learned of Global Warming back in 1967 when he was at Harvard

Now if they were teaching it at Harvard, it would hardly be a crackpot theory.

Interesting guy, this Roger Revelle, who was Gore's professor in the climate studies course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Revelle

He was doing research on the "greenhouse effect" back in 1957.

[proud patriot]

21. grrr

:wow:

[WillyT]

24. Kick !!!

:kick:

[bluesmail]

26. I was reading parts of a banned (ok, bought up book) from the 1960's(?)

Alternative 3. Do a search for it. It's an amazing book about climate scientists who held a conference in Huntsville, Alabama, (I think) where they already knew that climate change was happening and their data said the earth would be uninhabitable by the year 2050. That would have been right around when the Unchained Goddess was filmed. 1950-ish

[Prometheuspan]

27. scei nce fact; global war ming is real.

We have known since the 60s with certainty, the only reason there has ever been a "debate" is right wing liars and propaganda culture warriors, and exxons million dollar a year denial industry.

[Kablooie]

28. There was also a whole episode of Cosmos about global warming in 1980.