The first thing that I needed to look at when thinking about climate background was a general timeline of climate change in the US around the mid 1800s was when the first scholars were conducting educated experiments and making assumptions about how the human population can affect the climate. These scientists were men like Charles Fourier and John Tyndall. This website gave me a very good timeline.
The US has started to take heavy action on climate change, implementing the Climate Action Plan in 2015. The US has also done things like say they would not implement the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 because it would cause economic set back in the US. There wasn't very many policies regarding the climate until fairly recently, the US can't risk hurting our economy while trying to be environmentally friendly.
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