Posted by
bonjo on Friday, January 30, 2009 1:54:17 AM
In this excellent article by John Coleman, Dr. Suess is given credit for helping identify the early science supporting global warming way back in the 50's. Dr. Suess is mentioned in this excerpt from the article:
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute's areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957.
I checked Wikipedia and sure enough Hans Suess is:
an Austrian physical chemist and nuclear physicist. Suess earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1935.
Nuclear physicist: that makes him a real rocket scientist, eh?
And Ph.D. makes him a Dr. right?
So the foundational science for global warming was laid in part by Dr. Suess. Cool huh?
One other interesting item from the article. Roger Revelle later became one of Al Gore's Harvard (pronounced haaa-vud) professors and inspiration to later seek a career in making big bucks selling carbon credits when he grew up.
It could only happen in a free America.