{"id":23536,"date":"2011-11-07T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/see-without-all-those-pollution-laws-wed-be-in-great-shape.html"},"modified":"2011-11-07T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T00:27:55","slug":"see-without-all-those-pollution-laws-wed-be-in-great-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/see-without-all-those-pollution-laws-wed-be-in-great-shape.html","title":{"rendered":"See! Without all those pollution laws, we&#39;d be in great shape!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look at whether folks thought we might have global warming forty years back.  Short answer: carbon dioxide was well recognized as both increasing and a greenhouse gas, but the effect was offset by particulate pollution, leading some to think we&#39;d be facing global <i>cooling<\/i> .  <\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ve made huge strides in dealing with particulate pollution (which is a very good thing for us to have done), but not about CO2, which is a good chunk of why we&#39;re where we are now with climate change. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fepauniversity.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F05%2Fcleanair.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D300' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/03\/what-were-scientists-saying-about-global-warming-in-1971\/'>What were scientists saying about global warming in\u00a01971?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat did scientists know and say about climate change and global warming in the 1970s?\u00a0 I keep running into claims by modern climate change denialists that scientists in the 1970s firmly predicted&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look at whether folks thought we might have global warming forty years back. Short answer: carbon dioxide was well recognized as both increasing and a greenhouse gas, but the effect was offset by particulate pollution, leading some to think we&#39;d be facing global cooling . We&#39;ve made huge strides in dealing with particulate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/see-without-all-those-pollution-laws-wed-be-in-great-shape.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;See! 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