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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/nixon-advisers-climate-research-plan-another-lost-chance-on-the-road-to-crisis/
- Published: 2024-04-29T09:00:37-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at insideclimatenews.org