A report to the US president sounded an alarm — humankind was ‘conducting a vast geophysical experiment’ by burning fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with an ‘invisible pollutant.’ But a slick campaign by Big Oil led to confusion, politicization and dire consequences for the planet.
Adam Levy talked with Dana Nuccitelli & Naomi Oreskes about when scientists first sounded the alarm for climate change and why this alarm was ignored for so long.