Antarctica records it’s highest ever temperature.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Global warming and gloabl cooling are caused by the sun. The only exceptions are the occasional slate wiper meteor impacts.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

jpgusaobserves: "The earliest environmental legislation was probably justified. It made sense that the atmosphere and waters should not be an open sewer. "

Correct. In the colonial era, all leather tanneries dumped their chemical waste into the local brook or river. In smaller streams there was no life in the steams. You could tell what color paper was being made at rhe paper mill by the color of the river down stream. Dams were built with no fish ladders.

As a child i saw "gas works". They took coal from Pennsylvania and heated it up so it was red hot (in the absence of air) The gas was captured and compressed and piped through the ground to factories and homes near factories. Coal oil was also captured and delivered to homes for the first oil furnaces. Back then there was no natural gas.

Out behind the house was an old abandoned factory. We kids wandered through the buildings. The ash from the factory coal furnaces had been hauled out back and piled up. In the ashes were small pieces of unburned coal. I carried a 10 quart pail down there and dug through the ash. When I had the pail full, I would bring it home. We had a "stack heater" to heat our water. You put a couple of cups of small coal pieces in the bottom of the heater and lit it. This would make enough hot water for two loads in the washing machine or two baths. When we had enough hot water, we went down and shut off the airto the stack heater. When the stack heater was cool to the touch, we would scoop the ash out of the bttom of the stack heater.

By the way, the byproduct of the gas works was coke,which is half burned coal. Most homes were heated with coke. It was much less expensive than anthracite, but coke had higher ash which was non-combustible.

Back during WW|| there were not many automatic devices.