An article about climate change that is over 100 years old warns with frightening precision

As early as 1912, a New Zealand newspaper published an article in the science section that predicted dire climate developments for our planet. Today we know that this climate change prediction is frighteningly close to reality.

Coal consumption changes the climate

The newspaper “The Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette” describes the effect as follows:

“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 annually. 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.”

“Coal consumption changes the climate.
The world's kilns now burn an average of 2,000,000,000 tons of coal per year. When it reacts with oxygen during combustion, around 7,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced, which are released into the atmosphere every year. So the air becomes a more effective blanket for the earth and warms it. The impact could be immense in a few centuries.”

Amazingly accurate description

It was already known in 1912 that we humans are the ones who contribute to global warming and thus to climate change. A few months earlier, the Australian newspaper Braidwood Dispatch published the same text. This can also be found in the archives of the National Library of Australia .
As early as 1824, Jean-Baptiste Fourier described that atmospheric gases influence the climate. In 1930 the connection between carbon dioxide and the climate was discussed on a broader level, and since the 1950s the influence of humans through industrialization has been taken seriously.

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An academic discussion in the New York Times addressed the topic of how burning coal affects our climate. Here, forecasts of climate change can even be traced back to the 1850s. The problem was known very early on, but no countermeasures were taken. In 2016, more than 5.3 billion tons of coal were burned worldwide. Coal production continues to increase in developing countries.

There is more carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere than ever before, reaching its highest level in the last 800,000 years.

Source: futurezone.de
Article image: Shutterstock / Maks Viktor Antiquarian Books

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