It’s 50 Years Since Climate Change was First Seen. Now Time is Running Out – The Guardian
Article Synopsis – Fifty years ago, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report to the American Petroleum Institute (API), which warned that rising CO2 levels could bring about climatic changes like temperature increases, melting of ice caps and sea level rise. To counter and slow down the effort to address climate change, the fossil fuel industry began its long and powerful strategy of climate denial and obstructionism. The anniversary of SRI’s report to the API on climate change represents not just a damning piece of evidence of what the fossil fuel industry knew and when, but a signal of all that we have lost over the decades of policy inaction and interference. To read the actual article click here.