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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

How did we get here?': documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

A 1988 US drought and heatwave revealed early bipartisan acceptance of human-driven global warming and a missed presidential opportunity for national climate leadership.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
6 months ago

Interview: Netflix's "The White House Effect"

From 1988-1992, Yale grad and oil company founder George H.W. Bush was commander-in-chief; not only did Bush. Sr. improbably make vocal his belief that global warming ("The Greenhouse Effect") was real, but promised to employ "the White House effect" to counter it. Which included appointing as EPA chief Bill Reilly, an avid conservationist and veteran of Nixon's Presidential Council on Environmental Quality and the World Wildlife Fund.
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