Fact Check: A 1912 Newspaper Really DID Publish A Note On Effect Burning Coal Could Have On Earth's Temperature
Fact Check
Did New Zealand's Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette publish a paragraph on "Coal Consumption Affecting Climate" in the Science Notes and News section of the paper back on August 14, 1912? It's TRUE! This paragraph predicting the effect that burning billions of tons of coal could have on the climate did appear in this New Zealand newspaper…