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High-level officials inside the Nixon administration debated climate change (...) as early as 1969...”
The “Carbon Dioxide Problem”: Nixon’s Inner Circle Debates the Climate Crisis | National Security Archive
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2024 - High-level officials inside the Nixon administration debated climate change and the impacts of sea-level rise, extreme temperatures, and fossil-fuel consumption as early as 1969, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project.