“Oreskes knew that scientists had been working to understand how carbon dioxide affected the global climate since the late 19th century. So she set about writing what she thought would be a short paper to correct the record… Her paper ballooned into an 124-page analysis, soon to be published in the journal Ecology Law Quarterly.”

[Edit: the 1958 Frank Capra animation mentioned in the article … ‘Unchained Goddess’ is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqClSPWVnNE ]