On this day, October 16 in 1956, Democratic vice-presidential nominee worried aloud about H-bomb tests knocking the world off balance. 1956 VP candidate Estes Kefauver warns H-bomb tests could knock Earth off its axis by 16 degrees. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1961/11/13/page/24/article/why-sen-kefauver-is-all-bent-over [The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 314ppm. At time of writing it was 421ishppm- […]