Apparently, former presidential adviser and U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made Al Gore look like a Pollyanna! In 1969, he wrote a frantic memo to then-president Nixon predicting that, by the year 2000, carbon emissions would result in New York City and Washington, D.C. being under water.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Moynihan's 1969 Global Warming Memo
Apparently, former presidential adviser and U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made Al Gore look like a Pollyanna! In 1969, he wrote a frantic memo to then-president Nixon predicting that, by the year 2000, carbon emissions would result in New York City and Washington, D.C. being under water.