In 1912, Popular Mechanics published an article on "The Effect of the Combustion of Coal on the Climate" that stated, "The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries." The article took a positive view of the phenomenon, concluding that "even the dull foreigner, who burrows in the earth by the faint gleam of his miner's lamp, not only supports his family and helps to feed the consuming furnaces of modern industry, but by his toil in the dirt and darkness adds to the carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere so that men in generations to come shall enjoy milder breezes and live under sunnier skies." The former passage was reprinted later in that year in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal in Australia and The Rodney and Otamatea Times in New Zealand.
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^"Coal Consumption Affecting Climate". Science Notes and News. The Rodney and Otamatea Times. August 14, 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-08-21 – via National Library of New Zealand. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.
^"Coal Consumption Affecting Climate". Science Notes and News. The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal. Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia. July 17, 1912. p. 4. ISSN2201-4896. Retrieved 2021-08-21 – via National Library of Australia. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.