The legacy of Climategate e-mails and documents of 2009 can be traced to <i><b>surprising events</b></i> sixty-four years (~64 yrs) earlier (2009-1945 = 64):
<b>August 1945:</b> Hiroshima and Nagasaki were consumed by <I><b>"Nuclear Fires"</b></i> that ended the Second World War.
<b>October 1945:</b> The United Nations was established <I>"to save succeeding generations from the <b>scourge of war</b>, which twice in our lifetime has brought <b>untold sorrow to mankind</b>, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, . . ."<i> [First sentence in Preamble to the UN Charter, 1945].
http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml
<b>1946:</b> Immediate, abrupt <i>lock-step <b>surprising U-turn</b> in scientific beliefs about the Sun's source of energy,</i> - led by Fred Hoyle and the Royal Astronomical Society - <i>element synthesis, and the composition of stars beneath the layer composed almost entirely of light elements (91%H and 9% He) at the top of stellar atmospheres.</i>
Fred Hoyle, “The chemical composition of the stars,” <i>Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society</i> <b>106</b>, 255-59 (1946)
Fred Hoyle, “The synthesis of the elements from hydrogen,”<i>Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society</i> <b>106</b>, 343-83 (1946)
Sir Fred Hoyle reported much later, in his 1994 autobiography, on the opinions of astronomers and astrophysicists, specifically those of Sir Arthur Eddington and himself, before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed:
<i>"We both believed that the sun was made mostly of iron, . . .”
“The high-iron solution continued to reign supreme in the interim (at any rate, in the astronomical circles to which I was privy) until after the Second World War, . . .”
Fred Hoyle, <i>"Home Is Where the Wind Blows,"</i> [University Science Books, 1994, 441 pages ]page 153 (bottom)
<i>. . ."when I was able to show, <b>to my surprise</b>, that the high-hydrogen, low iron-solution was to be preferred for the interiors as well the atmospheres" of all stars.</i>
Fred Hoyle, <i>"Home Is Where the Wind Blows,"</i> [University Science Books, 1994, 441 pages] page 154 (top)
The legacy of Climategate sprang from these <i><b>surprising events</b></i> sixty-four years earlier.
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