On Nov 11, 5:49*am, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:

You don't really remember who invented global warming do you?

Back in the mid 1980's when the coal miner's strike brought the UK economy
to its knees (the pound was $1.05), Margaret Thatcher came up with it as a
way of preventing the miners from ever having a politicial voice again.

The whole idea was to make coal and the miners so "dirty" to the common
man that the mines would be closed

Not exactly true, though. The uptake of CO2 by oceans and reef-
building
carbonate fixation was a hot science topic for many years. It was
late
eighties that the data got good enough to quantify the problem,
and early nineties when the scientific agreement came together.
Hardly anyone outside the UK knows (or cares, really) about the
Thatcher
contribution.

Remember the old story about the boy who cried "wolf"?
The villagers heard the warning from their watcher in the
field, and did nothing. They lost their child. They lost their
flock.
They had an excuse.
'Maggie Thatcher made me do it' isn't a good enough excuse, either.