[RedMonqey]

"...or did I miss his blistering criticism of FDR for global warming in 1943?"


Interesting graphic. If global warming is due to carbon being released into the atmosphere, then why didn't the temps spike upwards after WW2?

Think of all the burning cities, machinery, explosions and the terrible waste of untold billions of barrels of oil in the oceans due to torpedoed ships, etc. The sky should have set itself on fire by the fifties....

[Gondring]

If global warming is due to carbon being released into the atmosphere, then why didn't the temps spike upwards after WW2?

It's not just carbon, it's carbon dioxide...the carbon particles of soot from burning will block the incoming solar radiation, resulting in cooling. Although your idea fits the spike of the 1940s decade, it would take a lot more than that coincidence to convince me.