The Short History of the Global Warming Theory

March 17, 2010 by jason

This article takes a step back from the usual global warming discussions I post on this website. I wanted to explore something as important to the theory of global warming as anything else - the history behind it, and the debates and controversy that got us to where we are today. Before writing this article I didn't know the answer to that question, so I looked it up. I got interested in this after reading an article titled Global warming is a hoax, invented in 1988. Skimming through the content of what at first seemed like a credibly piece of blogging, I found this a few lines down:

Atmospheric science requires highly technical knowledge and skills, not possessed by the vast majority of the so-called environmentalists, who yet feel qualified to demand that human activity subjugate itself to the whims of their new deity, Mother Nature."

I stopped reading there, and decided there must be more to the story than whatever this guy had to say.