KLIMATSKI PORTAL
Illustrations/headers for various news articles, editorials, and social media graphics.
VISUALS FOR AN EDITORIAL ON
THE HISTORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL
Social media visuals.
https://klima.faktograf.hr/povijest-negiranja-klimatske-krize/
Jan Baptist van Helmont was a Flemish alchemist who discovered the existence
of various gases in the mid-17th century and was the first to identify carbon dioxide.
The collection and standardization of global weather data began way back in 1879,
long before the mobile applications where we follow radar images and wait for rain.
Milutin Milaković, a Serbian genius born in Croatian Dalje in 1879, a builder,
mathematician, geophysicist and astronomer, mathematically calculated how
the periods of ice ages can be calculated based on the movement of the Earth.
Back in 1968, glaciologist John Mercer warned of the possible collapse of ice sheets, which
could result in the submergence of coastal cities. His claim that the Antarctic ice sheets
are fragile and have already melted in the past was confirmed only at the end of the century.
In 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists discovered an ozone hole over Antarctica, leading to
the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which mandated a reduction in the use of ozone-depleting aerosols.
Did you know that during the 20th century, Americans bought almost a third of packs of cigarettes at gas stations?
The oil and tobacco industries are deeply connected, and in the same way they denied their social responsibility.
