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August 21, 1972 – Nature editor John Maddox says C02-temperature fear “found wanting”

On this day, 21 August, 1972, the editor of Nature, John Maddox, was on the ABC’s “Monday Conference” (a high brow TV show). And he dismissed climate change as a problem, as he had in his recent book “The Doomsday Syndrome.”

[The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 326.3 ppm. Now it is 421ish- but see here for the latest.]

ABC, 1974. Saving our small world: Monday Conference on population, ecology and resources. Sydney: ABC Books

Why this matters. 

We knew a lot earlier than 1988. Sure, you can’t really blame anyone in the early 70s – but by the late 70s, “we” knew enough.

What happened next?

Nothing. That’s the point of this site.