Connection between Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change from 1912

Published 2017-05-11 by Kalle Nilvér

Updated at 2025-10-17

I found an old newspaper clip from 1912 talking about the possibly dangerous link between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and climate change. But we continued and accelerated the digging up of extreme amounts of coal from the ground and let it out into the atmosphere. The next generation won’t be very happy with us I’m afraid.

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Source: A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change