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On this Day: January 11th – the law (1909), new ice age? (1970) and a warming Arctic (2010)

On this day in 1909 what would turn out to be an important law for “cross-border pollutants” (e.g. sulphur dioxide from one country’s power plants acidifying another’s lakes) was passed

January 11, 1909 – Boundary Object(ions).

In the late 1960s all sorts of scenarios grabbed the attention of journalists – ice ages, running out of oxygen,  you name it.

On this day 16 years ago, a scientific study about the Arctic was released. You can guess the rest.

Are there other climate-related events that happened on this day that you think deserve a shout out? If so, let me know.

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