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environmentalist counterparts had begun to doubt. Nevertheless, the
precautionary ethos that led atmospheric scientists to pursue CO
2
as an
environmental pollutant put them in loose conversation with the growing
American environmental movement in the 1960s. Atmospheric scientists
were hardly environmental activists in the mid-1960s, but by the end of the
decade the scientific, political, and epistemological pieces were in place for
that to change. Already, a new interpretation of the Keeling Curve was at
hand.
