On this day, 8 September 1990 a climate denialist called John Daly was spouting his soothing nonsense.
The worsening of the greenhouse effect is not inevitable, according to the author of The Greenhouse Trap, John Daly. Sea levels may not be rising, the planet may not be warming and studies indicate that the real increase in carbon-dioxide emission world-wide since 1850 is not the commonly reported 80 per cent but about 25 per cent, he says.
Mr Daly, a marine electronics engineer, spoke in Canberra on Saturday night [8 September] on what he calls a program of misinformation.
His recent exposure of inaccuracies in a schools’ brochure issued by the Minister for the Environment, Ros Kelly, led to its withdrawal.
Mr Daly quotes several eminent Australian scientists and many American ones as having compiled
evidence casting doubt on the existence of the greenhouse effect.
“I just want people to realise that there is some doubt,” Mr Daly said.
He says that in 20 years’ study of weather and science, particularly during the greenhouse effect’s “fashionable” period, the ’80s, he has found little to prove its existence.
Anon. 1990. Author questions greenhouse effect. Canberra Times, 10 September, p. 5.
Idiot.
On this day the PPM was 351.38. Now it is 421ish- but see here for the latest.
Why this matters.
There was a very successful campaign by over-confident and wilfully ignorant “contrarians” for decades. Daly was present at the creation.
What happened next?
The denial stuff kept on going. Old white men painted themselves into a corner and admit they were wrong. So it goes.