Back

@bascule@mas.to

Came across this a few years ago.

Frustrated that there's no author and no explanation of figures used and how it was calculated.

@bascule @williampietri

@bascule just to preempt anyone thinking this is fabricated, it shows up time to time and gets fact checked as authentic on the regular. The text was also published in popular science in 1912.

@bascule Happy eleventy first birthday!

@bascule they knew 100 years ago.

@bascule @stux I remember reading a biography of Alexander Humboldt and he was certainly aware of climate change as well.

@bascule I remember being told of this in the 1950s in school.

@bascule “The Truth is Out There”
(Even if off by a century or two)

@bascule yup. the greatest piece of propaganda is that EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is new.

@bascule More on this - fascinating! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/

@bascule - About 2 Gt of coal burned per year in 1912, about 8 Gt in 2022.

@bascule throws me back to this Re the industrial age. Note the 6th item… #climate #women
https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-negative-effects

@bascule

Gotta love how they assumed output would remain steady and not increase exponentially.

@bascule@mas.to a century later and its basically one of the biggest talks

@bascule Emmanuel Macron, january 2023:
"Who could have predicted the climate crisis?"

@bascule

@bascule more like A century huh

@SheDrivesMobility ^^ !!