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Posted Mon Feb 2 2015: from Daily Climate:
A 50th anniversary few remember: LBJ's warning on carbon dioxide http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1422890614
It is a key moment in climate change history that few remember: This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first presidential mention of the environmental risk of carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuels. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in a February 8, 1965 special message to Congress warned about build-up of the invisible air pollutant that scientists recognize today as the primary contributor to global warming.
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