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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: charlesoakwood on May 20, 2011, 11:59:45 AM

Title: Nixon, global warming, declassified
Post by: charlesoakwood on May 20, 2011, 11:59:45 AM

Nixon nixed Global Warming (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-02/news/27068918_1_nixon-presidential-library-global-warming-carbon-dioxide)
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Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public's attention.

There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.

"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
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It's About Liberty Link to article (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-02/news/27068918_1_nixon-presidential-library-global-warming-carbon-dioxide)

Title: Re: Nixon, global warming, declassified
Post by: Damn_Lucky on May 20, 2011, 12:03:59 PM

Just heard about this on "Rush".
I kinda wish it was true, New York and DC would be under water and life would be better for it.

Title: Re: Nixon, global warming, declassified
Post by: Libertas on May 21, 2011, 09:32:43 AM

Nixed global warming, but gave us EPA...we cannot win by breaking even!