July 1, 1957- A key “year” in climate science begins… - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, July 1st, 1957, the “International Geophysical Year” (actually 18 months!) began. Sponsored jointly by WMO and the International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU), 30,000 scientists from more than 1000 research stations in sixty-six countries participated. (source – Page 22 Paterson, M (1996)) Why this matters. People were already interested in carbon dioxide […]
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