1953 Popular Mechanics: Growing Blanket of Carbon Dioxide Raises Earth’s Temperature  

The Red Mullet points to some ancient history about global warming, via a 1953 magazine article - 1953 Popular Mechanics: Growing Blanket of Carbon Dioxide Raises Earth’s Temperature.

From Climate Progress by Joe:

Yes, I know everybody used to think we were headed toward an ice age. Well, except Dr. Frank Baxter (and Frank Capra) in 1958. And except for James Hansen for three decades, of course. And the National Research Council along with the vast majority of climate scientists from the 1970s on.

But Popular Mechanics warned us a full 55 (!) years ago.

Actually, Time magazine reported on Plass’s work in May 1953, in an article titled “Invisible Blanket,” which ends “for centuries to come, if man’s industrial growth continues, the earth’s climate will continue to grow warmer...”