That was probably fairly accurate at that time.
Look at the historical data here:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
BTW, the large recent drop in co2 emissions, covid.
I never thought I’d say this, but looks like we need more pandemics!
This is actually a thought that some climate deniers have. “Climate change is a hoax to control you, covid was the trial run”.
Unsurprisingly, the people who say that publicly tend to be funded by oil.
Why doesn’t anyone ever think COVID was sent by God to give us a reprieve and a chance to get our act together, which we’re now squandering?
Good news! We’re continuing to shit on our biodiversity safety net.
Seems like legally requiring hybrid work benefits would get us significantly closer to those goals
“large”… If only. Barely a drop in the bucket.
Whenever I think about this article, I think about how they could not have possibly known how emissions would grow, and they were perfectly reasonable to frame it this way. And if things stayed at that rate, we would have been able to do something about it so easily when we started getting worried
The German Federal Public Radio (Deutschland Funk) has a Radio Documentary Series, about particular historical Topics called “Der Rest ist Geschichte”. Mostly academic experts explain the topics from the academic view for “common” people. They made a interesting one about the History of the Knowledge about the climate crisis.
Aus der Dlf App | Der Rest ist Geschichte | Klima und Krise – Seit wann wir von der Erderwärmung wissen https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_15dd044f
Afaik there is no English version :<
It’s a good thing someone noticed this back then, and the world dumped the coal industry. Imagine how fucked we’d be now if this was completely ignored.
Oh how right/wrong they were… 😮
At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.
What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically
interestingly enough in the early 1900 there were more electric cars than ICEs in north america
That’s so cool to know! Oh wait I mean hot, and also not, well anyway thanks for sharing:-P.
Yeah but why did they need to get political about it?/s
$$$
just could not imagine the scale at which human civilization would escalate. Apart from that, spot on.
That’s like 30 years after the concept was first understood. Even now the concept is downplayed so people don’t reject it outright
And even today, almost no one truly understands the implications of exponential growth… I’d give them full marks
Gramma was a toddler.
To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.
Woke. Cancel them. Get politics out of my newspapers.
They have already been canceled.
That may end up being correct. The models predicting the most catastrophic effects are often showing that for 2100, which would be nearly 200 years from the publish date.
And my friends and family wonder why I’m not having kids. I’m sure eager to bring new life in right before one of the most cataclysmic events of humanity, that’s for sure.
It said a few centuries, not a couple.
what’s the difference?
WARKWORTH was Wokewarth, am I right?
Humanity: Hold my pint.
1&1/10th is indeed a very few centuries.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Why did they not print the whole of ‘Affecting’ on a new line, that’s bothering me
Liang hadn’t made his hyphenation algorithm yet :(
More like decades
Many decades have past since 1912 and we are still here.