That was probably fairly accurate at that time.
Look at the historical data here:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
BTW, the large recent drop in co2 emissions, covid.
To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.
What's funny about that newspaper excerpt is that it is word-for-word plagiarized from a picture caption in earlier article in Popular Mechanics, March 1912
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The reporter for Rodnen and Otamatea Times must've been on tight deadlines!
It's Rodney, the district just north of Auckland in New Zealand
That may end up being correct. The models predicting the most catastrophic effects are often showing that for 2100, which would be nearly 200 years from the publish date.
And my friends and family wonder why I'm not having kids. I'm sure eager to bring new life in right before one of the most cataclysmic events of humanity, that's for sure.
The thing that really gets me about these ignorant fuckers is it's not just the indisputable math, it's that we've observed the proof not just in our ecosystem, but on Venus. You can't even pretend we don't know how these systems work in at least a general sense.
just could not imagine the scale at which human civilization would escalate. Apart from that, spot on.
Why did they not print the whole of 'Affecting' on a new line, that's bothering me
