A Notable Date in the History of Climate Change

On August 14th, 1912, a small item appeared in a New Zealand newspaper, the Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, under the headline, “Coal Consumption Affecting Climate”: “The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons […]