>Roughly diverges from Carter putting solar panels on the White House and Reagan not taking them off. It's a well-known story, but it's based on spin* . Carter

>Roughly diverges from Carter putting solar panels on the White House and Reagan not taking them off. It's a well-known story, but it's based on spin* . Carter did not place the solar panels due to belief in climate change. What Carter and his staff did believe in was Peak Oil, and that it would occur in the 1980s. Also, Carter wanted to wean the US off Middle Eastern oil following the 1973 oil embargo and the 1979 oil crisis. Solar panels were a part of Carter's adaptation effort, but a bigger part was oil shale and coal liquefaction, liquefaction being so incredibly polluting (CCS wasn't even considered at the time) we'd probably be looking at 5C had it been commonplace. The actual priorities of the Carter effort are easily discoverable for anyone looking at the period: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/17/archives/environmentalists-fear-a-retrenching-by-carter-official.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/17/archives/environmentalist... * To be clear, the spin does not come from OP, but from the Democratic spin handler that years later told the solar panels story but without the context which changes the story entirely. It's easy for people to fall into the spin if they don't know the period.