In 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
At the time of course Teller was trying to get the nuclear industry out of the slump it was in rather than save the planet. And it didn&#x27;t help that he was &quot;wrong&quot; in his numbers, we have already passed the additional 10% of CO2 (360 ppm) in the atmosphere and New York is not submerged, and Greenland and pole ice caps are not melted.<p>So I wonder a bit about what the Guardian is trying to tell us here. That we should have listened 100 years ago to Teller and taken action? How about to Pauling and his vitamins, or Toffler and his &quot;future shock&quot;, or Erlich&#x27;s &quot;Population Bomb&quot;?<p>All of these topics have the potential to be huge things and deserve the research funding they received but looking back 100 years and picking out one that was closer to the truth than the others isn&#x27;t really helpful unless your advocating more funding for basic scientific research.