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The American Petroleum Institute was celebrating Big Oil's 100th birthday in 1959 when Edward Teller went to the podium and killed the buzz. "Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light, but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. ..."

"Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered. ..." s