Saturday, January 15, 2011

Global warming, a radical idea? Back in 1975 it was!

Global warming, a radical idea? audio
Global warming, a radical idea?
Broadcast Date: April 21, 1975

"I think every single scientist… we've spoken to for the past year has been forecasting a cooling trend, maybe even an ice age. And you're saying quite the opposite," CBC's Barbara Frum tells W.S. Broecker of Columbia University. He predicts the planet is actually going to warm up soon thanks to all the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Frum wonders: is this just an "academic interest" or is it really important? "Possibly, it could be terribly important," answers Broecker in this 1975 clip.

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