It's around the fiftieth anniversary of one of the landmarks of climate science, the first report to a president about it, this 1965 report to President Johnson on global warming and other topics, by all the big names in the field at that time.
http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira downloads/PSAC, 1965, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.pdf
If you read it, everything is correct. They predict the warming from human-emitted CO2. They say they can't model it yet, but they'll be able to do so soon, and they did (in 1974). They predict the sea level rise, ocean acidification, melting icecaps, everything. Scientists have been getting it all right about global warming for over 50 years now, and that's why the science has so much credibility.
Now, the crazies will say that's when the socialist conspiracy started, but nobody cares about them.
Count that as another coffin nail in the "but they predicted cooling!" nonsense. No, they predicted warming. That report is the statement of the scientific consensus at the time.
http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira downloads/PSAC, 1965, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.pdf
If you read it, everything is correct. They predict the warming from human-emitted CO2. They say they can't model it yet, but they'll be able to do so soon, and they did (in 1974). They predict the sea level rise, ocean acidification, melting icecaps, everything. Scientists have been getting it all right about global warming for over 50 years now, and that's why the science has so much credibility.
Now, the crazies will say that's when the socialist conspiracy started, but nobody cares about them.
Count that as another coffin nail in the "but they predicted cooling!" nonsense. No, they predicted warming. That report is the statement of the scientific consensus at the time.