Man-made Global Warming
Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1727) had made this
observation on the basis of a mathematical
calculation based in turn on the classical laws
of gravity and motion. This estimate appeared
to be so strange that people took it as showing
a superstitious side to Newton’s life. This letter
was first shown to the public in 1969, when
Jerusalem’s HebrewUniversity displayed it in
an exhibition called ‘Newton’s Secrets’.
What Newton had observed by mathematical
calculation regarding the end of the world has
now become a known fact in science. The
climate change taking place as a result of
global warming in modern times has brought
scientists to the conclusion that by 2010 the
life support system will be so disturbed that
most probably all kinds of life will come to an
end on earth by 2050.
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