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While serving as Director of Scripps, Revelle and one of his researchers wrote the first modern scientific paper that linked carbon dioxide released into the air from the burning of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect and the warming of temperatures. This triggered an avalanche of research that eventually became the impetus behind the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the entire global warming movement. In the 1960s Revelle moved to Harvard to establish a Center for Population Studies. There is where Professor Revelle encountered student Albert Gore... In 1988 Roger Revelle was having major second thoughts about whether carbon dioxide was a significant greenhouse gas. ... in 1991 he co-authored a report for the new science magazine Cosmos in which he expressed his strong doubts about global warming and urged more research before any remedial action was taken. At that point Mr. Gore pronounced Revelle as senile and refused to debate global warming... Today Al Gore received the first Roger Revelle award, an honor named after the man who sent Gore on his global warming campaign.

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.




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