Our industrial civilization has been pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a great rate. By the year 2000 we will have added about 70 percent more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. If it remained, it would have a very marked warming effect on the earth’s climate, but most of it will probably be absorbed by the oceans. Conceivably, however, it could cause significant melting of the great icecaps and raise sea levels in time.

From the 1958 U.S. National Academy of Sciences publication, Planet Earth: Mystery With100,000 Clues.
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*Way to go with the futurism, Space Age scientists

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