Thirty years ago, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Republican John Chafee convened a two-day hearing on climate change. Chris Mooney writes in the Washington Post that the top level message of scientists at the time was “eerily” familiar to today.
Much of what the climate scientists were saying in 1986 is the same message they are providing today, but with far more certainty. If you are curious about what was said back in 1986 and what kind of messages we should be taking from these hearings 30 years later, you might be interested in reading this discussion from the Niskanen Center blog here.
