More than 20 years ago, the Jewish Western Bulletin was informing the community about climate change; once known as global warming, then called the greenhouse effect. The Feb. 16, 1989, issue of the paper featured an article promoting The Greenhouse Effect – A Hot Time Ahead, a talk hosted by the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute. A spokesperson explained some of the effect’s causes and how “significant warmth resulting from the effect” would melt the ice caps and cause the flooding of coastal cities, among other things.
February 11, 2011