Fifty five years ago, on this day, April 15th, 1969, a well-known British Scientist was sounding the alarm.
Anon, 1969. Air Pollution Could Cause Flood- Expert. Coventry Evening Telegraph, April 16, p.10
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 326.4ppm. As of 2024 it is 425ppm, but check here for daily measures.
The context was that more and more senior British scientists were switching on to the danger of carbon dioxide. And Mellanby was one of the first, maybe first, to make a public song and dance about it.
What we learn is that well, whoever went to that event in Coventry in 1969, will have been sensitised to the issue.
What happened next? Mellanby kept talking about it. Mellanby was okay with the Blueprint for Survival of January 1972.
What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs.
Also on this day:
April 15, 1965 – Murray Bookchin warns about carbon dioxide build-up
April 15, 1974 – war criminal Henry Kissinger gives climate danger speech