Staasan clapped his hands in delight . Never before had he needed to convince someone to do something for him with such ferocity ! Ah great that you accepted ! I have just the thing for you ! He flipped through the pages of his notebook and tore one out . You see , this man . he pointed to the name scribbled on the paper . . is a hell of a party planner ! But . the problem is that he is a Marine Rear Admiral posted at Marineford . Please convince him to come here and organize the party for us , okay ? Don ' t get caught ! Talk to Rewardssan when you get back ! <| sep |> I think the refs should have reviewed that turnover <| sep |> Did people not realize how extremely threatening CO 2 emissions were , back when industrialization started ? Of course not ! The industrial economy and thus CO 2 emissions follows an exponential curve . And humans are not good when it comes to exponential growth . Half of all human CO 2 emissions ever have been emitted in the last thirty years , IIRC . In addition , economies are mostly human creations , and there ' s no way to forecast human activities beyond 12 months . There ' s a memorable memo from Linton Wells 0412 % 20 To % 20 George % 20 W % 20 Bush % 20 et % 20 al % 20 re % 20 Predicting % 20 the % 20 Future . pdf about predicting the future . It ' s a reminder how fast things can change . This should be kept in mind when looking at the first scientists who mentioned humancaused climate change In 1896 , Svante Arrhenius was the first to say that human industry might lead to global warming , due to his work on trying to explain the ice ages . He thought it was a good thing because it would prevent the next ice age . In 1938 , G . S . Callendar argued that the level of carbon dioxide was climbing and raising global temperature . But he also thought it was a good thing , since it would prevent the next ice age . Neither of them was taken seriously by other scientists since they thought CO 2 would be reabsorbed by the oceans or by plants on land . It wasn ' t until the 1950 ies that scientists began to understand this was not the case . But nobody back then would have be able to predict how fast human economies can grow under the right circumstances .