Nixon Advisers’ Climate Research Plan: Another Lost Chance on the Road to Crisis

Photo caption: A newly revealed research proposal from 1971 shows that Richard Nixon’s science advisors embarked on an extensive analysis of the potential risks of climate change. Photo credit: Oliver Atkins / National Archives. Article by Marianne Lavelle. Inside Climate News – April 26, 2024.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s survival,” according to a White House document newly obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive and shared exclusively with Inside Climate News. […]

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