This is a sad and woeful tale.
Once upon a time...there was this smart kid of sorts...who ended up becoming a Oceanographer. Roger was his name...Roger Revelle. Roger was in WW II...the big war....and was in the navy. Things went well for Roger after the war....he ended up getting this fine job as the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California.
Roger learned in those days that you need government projects....funding...to make your house payment and buy fine shoes....so he obtained major funding from the Navy to do measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls.
Somewhere along the way...Roger ended up hiring this guy....Hans Suess. Hans was this pretty fair Chemist from the University of Chicago. We can be honest here....Hans was always interested in carbon. Hans for some reason....had this fascination about carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels....coal, oil, natural gas.
Roger and Hans wrote this a science paper in 1957. Naturally, they discussed the idea about atmospheric carbon dioxide creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming.
The curious thing about this entire paper by Roger and Hans...this was solely an attempt to get more funding for more work. If they could have found a way to show a problem...they knew that some idiot in the government would fund a project to study it.
After this published paper....Roger ended up hiring a Geochemist...David Keeling. Dave's only purpose in life? Dave was supposed to come up with a method to measure the atmosphere and all the Carbon dioxide it contained. Naturally, Dave worked quickly....and ended up publishing his on this topic. Dave's subject? He showed the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...and this could only happen....naturally by the burning of fossil fuels (natural gas, oil, coal). You can kinda guess how the team concept works in this whole affair.
At this point in time...Dave, Roger and Hans....had yet to show proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas.
Dave, Roger and Hans also had yet to explain how this trace gas would ever have some effect or impact on temperatures...either raising or lowering them.
There is something going on in America in the late 1950s. The GI's who got the GI bill....went off to college...free of charge...and wrapped up a degree. They went out to the real world...and then found that industry was in 4th gear....and this involved pollution to some degree. The guys with science degrees discussed this...but couldn't get a full grasp on the "problem".
Here was a "problem"....so naturally, it needed to get fixed. You can only do this with the Government funding....with scientists and engineers involved.
So here was Roger...his organization...at the front of this wave...to "fix" the problem.
Roger kept the reports flowing....to keep funding growing. Competition got involved....as other poorly scientists discovered the same cash cow.
Dave's "curve" keeps showing a steady rise in CO2...which was bad....at least for the people funding this stuff.
So the 60's come....and along comes this United Nation's bureaucrat...Maurice Strong.
Maurice kept looking for problems to get his dream of a one-world government going. Maurice found this wonderful group of beings....mostly scientists, environmentalists and political operatives from the UN to form up this dream of his.
Somehow....Maurice eventually came to this idea of developing his world dream where payments from the advanced nations went to poor nations....because of climatic damage. You can guess the cause....burning of fossil fuels. He devised a UN group....whose sole purpose....was to sell this fossil fuel stuff.
By this point, Roger was working hard....and by a mircle....was now politically active. Shocked? Roger was lined up and thought he was going to end up as the Chancellor of the new campus at La Jolla. Roger....sadly....lost.
Roger decided that things weren't running like he thought they should....and ended up moving to Harvard University in 1963.
So at this mighty moment in 1963...Roger came to be a professor in Harvard...and had a student in his class.
In this story...it's the student that matters. The student came to understand everything Roger taught...except the idea of making money off government funding and the concept of bogus data. The student never asked many questions...because he really wasn't into this science stuff. Sadly, for you...without the questions...he never grasped the whole game.
You know the student...that's the woeful part of this story. So this is how the student....Al Gore, Maurice, Dave, Hans, and Roger came to be.
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