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The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change | Climate Town

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What it is

Climate Town tells the history of the period when the greenhouse effect was not politically controversial and the US came close to acting on climate. It covers Exxon's early climate science and the policy failures that followed.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an entertaining summary of early bipartisan climate action and corporate influence on research.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Climate Town has a great video essay on it”

    Video essay on how close the US came to acting on climate

    asmor, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found”

  2. “ClimateTown has a fairly entertaining video about it”

    Entertaining history of bipartisan climate action in the US

    erdo, 2021-09 · Recommendation · in “How I debate”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: climate change, exxon, kyoto protocol, us politics, video essay

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