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Source: Tide Gauge Data, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (2014)
In 1989, Bill McKibben pioneered this tactic in
The End of Nature,
wherein he called catastrophic cli-
mate change “the greenhouse effect.” That would have been news to one of the discoverers of the green-
house effect, Svante Arrhenius, who regarded increased CO
2
emissions as a very positive phenomenon. In
1896 he said: “By the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may
hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates, especially as regards the colder regions of the
