1799: Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster And The First Global Warming Debate
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 13:50
in Earth & Climate
As I wrote in Like Freedom? Thank A Scientist - How Science Made America Possible, during the meetings of the the Continental Congress during independence discussions, Thomas Jefferson noted the temperature on four separate occasions. Jefferson like many others present, was a citizen scientist long before there was government funding for it. The same climate of liberalism (liberals, not busybody progressives, as I have stated too many times to count) that makes science flourish made democracy possible.read more