Al Gore is Fat

Actually, he wasn't back then... that's just the attitude of our anti-science friends on the right when man-made climate change is discussed.  That conversation started on a global basis on this day in 1979 as the first World Climate Conference began in Geneva, Switzerland, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization.  The evidence had been mounting for a while, but this was the year that global warming was brought into the public spotlight.  Since then?  I report, you decide...

1979 was also the year NASA began assisting the reality-based scientific community by providing data on polar ice generated by Micowave Sounding Units aboard NOAA polar orbiting satellites launched the previous year.  To wit...

It's amazing that over thirty years later, there are many people--  including the leadership of one of the two major political parties in this country--  who still argue this point.