Climate Crisis Warning 1969
One of the most famous Senators of the second half of the 20th Century warned about the effects of carbon dioxide in 1969. According to the PBS program “American Masters,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that the problem would eventually become one of interest to the broad public. Climatecrisis247 believes this is more evidence the harmful effects of climate change were already evident to a small number of scientists and people who understood the science as early as 60 or 70 years ago.
Moynihan, who died in 2003 at the age of 76, was the Ambassador to the United Nations in 1975 and 1976. He was the Ambassador to India from 1973 to 1975. He was a Senator from New York from 1977 to 2001. He was also Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee from 1992 to 1993.
Moynihan’s early warming is part of the arguments made by city and state governments that have sued Big Oil. This argument goes that not only did the fossil fuel companies pollute the environment, but they knew they were doing so, and the activity had harmful effects as far back as the 1950s–a coverup.
