It bears noting that these observations and exchanges were entered into the Congressional Record in 1956, fifteen years before the first Earth Day, and thirty-five years before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its first report. There was no such thing as “climate denial” then, and there were no “climate skeptics.” Those present, all of whom were white men, and most of whom were churchgoers born at the very dawn of the automotive age, were open-minded about this alarming new information, and they discussed it with intelligent interest.
