Bell Laboratories (1958). 'The Unchained Goddess'
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About: "Frank Capra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Capra produced a series of science films for Bell Laboratories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs including: Our Mr. Sun (1956), Hemo the Magnificent (1957), The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957), and Meteora: The Unchained Goddess (1958). It was in the ‘Unchained Goddess series that he focused an episode on climate science." https://ossfoundation.org/projects/environment/global-warming/frank-capra-warns-of-global-warming-1958/ More: Seemingly, Margaret Thatcher expressed some awareness of climate change in 1989: https://ossfoundation.org/projects/environment/global-warming/margaret-thatcher-1989/ Further: "The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts. Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years owing to global heating and researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021. The new analysis estimates a timescale for the collapse of between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2050, if global carbon emissions are not reduced. Evidence from past collapses indicates changes of temperature of 10C in a few decades, although these occurred during ice ages" (Carrington, D., 2023). Further: "In 1856, an American woman named Eunice Newton Foote https://bsky.app/profile/blabalino.com/post/3meorynq6hk25 conducted a series of homespun experiments. She set up 30-inch-long cylinders, each with a thermometer inside, and each filled with different gases and gaseous mixtures — moist air, dry air, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen. Foote placed the cylinders in the sun and charted how the gases warmed. The cylinder containing carbon dioxide warmed the most, she noted, and stayed at its high temperature for a long time after she took it out of the sun" (Joosse, T., 2023). Further: "Have you ever seen those viral images on Twitter or Facebook that show Time magazine covers warning of global cooling? I see them at least a few times a month, but I’m never sure whether they’re real. As it turns out, most don’t depict what they claim to depict. The version of the image I’ve included below, which I saw on Twitter on Tuesday, was shared by someone named Dr. Simon Goddek who has over 300,000 followers on the social media platform. Goddek claims to be a scientist based in Brazil and posted the image, which includes eight Time magazine covers from over the years. But anyone with knowledge about the energy crisis of the 1970s can probably guess what’s going on here" (Novak, M., 2023). Further: "The Rodney & Otamatea Times WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE PRICE-10s perannum in advance WARKWORTH, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 1912. 3d per Copy. Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT-ING CLIMATE. - The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries." https://bsky.app/profile/climatedad.bsky.social/post/3mp3um3aizs2i https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/ Bibliography: Carlson, R., & Hurtz, W. (Directors). (1958). 'The Unchained Goddess'. Bell Laboratories. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157135/ Climate Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour. (2025). Cleanet.org. https://cleanet.org/resources/42957.html Carrington, D. (2023, July 25). 'Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests'. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests Nummelin, A., van den Broek, D., Leppänen, L., Leppänen, S., Merikanto, J., Rantanen, M., Thölix, L., Vihma, T., Räisänen, H., Uotila, P., Filimonova, N., Mettiäinen, I., Moore, J., Raheem, D., Rasmus, S., Sanaksenaho, S., Reh, V., Yamineva, Y., Sarkki, S., & Hiedanpää, J. (2026). 'A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping'. TemaNord. https://doi.org/10.6027/temanord2026-504 https://pub.norden.org/temanord2026-504/temanord2026-504.pdf Joosse, T. (2023). Physics History August 1856. [online] www.aps.org. Available at: https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/07/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-eunice-foote. Novak, M. (2023, March 22). Paleofuture. Paleofuture. https://paleofuture.com/blog/2023/3/22/the-real-story-behind-those-viral-time-magazine-covers-about-global-cooling-in-the-1970s
