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on hunting of these creatures which have no other predators save man, they too are at population levels never before observed and which threaten to explode into overpopulation.

As evidence that the "save the animals" movements were working-and how!-all over the world (save parts of the Far East, but since this did not involve traditional European/American trade in these animals, this was off-limits to the movement, now thoroughly locked into political correctness, as well), slowly leaked out of a largely sympathetic if not advocate media, it became clear that a still larger issue was needed.

Thankfully, those scientists in the late '70s and early '80s did the work they did on the "greenhouse effect." This was something an environmentalist, desperate to hang onto his or her pay, glory and power could really sink his or her teeth into. This was a completely amorphous theory. In the beginning, everything from auto and factory emissions to beef and pork herd flatulence was up for grabs as a part of the "greenhouse effect." Fortunately, as well, the "runaway greenhouse effect" came into vogue with perfect timing because other research indicated that, rather than entering into another Ice Age, as had been the en vogue prediction of scientific "consensus" in the mid-1970s, evidence suggested that instead, the global climate was warming.

The collection of the most minimal sort that could be used to determine temperature averages on a global scale was in place by sometime in the 1880s, by which time most parts of the world, including the arctic but excluding the Antarctic, had sufficient advancement (mostly due to European colonialism and the presence of Americans). From well above the Arctic Circle to the very bottom of the world in the South Pacific and especially South Atlantic, explorers, researchers, farmers, industrialists, and just plain folks were interested in what the temperature outside might be. So, they set out thermometers and some of them kept records, as well. This data was invaluable to NASA and the Goddard Institute of Space Science when these agencies began working to put humans into space. It turns out that weather can play a very big role in how well the launch of a rocket goes.

Space shots cost a lot and typically take years to set up. Scientist and engineers interested in seeing their multi-million (billion, today) space shots go off without being delayed by weather or worse, destroyed by weather had a driving interest in predicting what the weather

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