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The clip reads: 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 of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

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The clip reads: 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 of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 19:42:33 UTC Robert McNees

“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.”
A New Zealand newspaper posted a short article OTD in 1912 — 111 years ago! — pointing out that burning too much coal would have a negative impact on Earth’s climate.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5

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