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Roger Revelle

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A scientist warned of deadly heat by the year 2000, but the record shows the warning was far more dramatic than what actually happened.
Who they are

Roger Revelle, a scientist born in Seattle on March 7, 1909[1].

What they do

The record says he made extreme claims about how many would die in lakes of fire by 2000.

How it works

In 1968, Revelle made bug-eyed claims about the number of lakes of fire we would all die in by the year 2000. He had links to the Rockefeller Foundation through grant funding and a funding line via the Keeling Curve launch, but these do not establish what the grant funded, that Rockefeller funded the Keeling Curve itself, or that Rockefeller directed his research or conclusions.

Why it matters

It shows how a scientist's alarming predictions can be tied to major funders, even when the exact influence is unclear.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "It 1968 , Roger Revelle made all sorts of bug-eyed claims about exactly how many lakes of fire we’d all die in by the year 2000." Cross-sourced to nap.nationalacademies.org — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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