1956 Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass publishes a lucid explanation of 鈥渃arbon dioxide theory鈥 to account for 鈥渢he general warming of the climate that has taken place in the last sixty years鈥 Physicist Gilbert Plass of Johns Hopkins and colleagues publish 鈥淭he Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change,鈥 to account for 鈥渢he general warming of the […]
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1951 American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson publishes the New York Times bestseller The Sea Around Us, including observations about pronounced warming in the Arctic regions of the Earth In a chapter in The Sea Around Us entitled 鈥淭he Global Thermostat,鈥 Rachel Carson observes, 鈥淣ow in our lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration […]
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1938 English engineer and amateur meteorologist Guy Callendar concludes that humans have added about 150,000 million tonnes of CO2 to the air over the previous 50 years 鈥淭he artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature,鈥 a paper by Guy Callendar appearing in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, concludes that […]
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1904 Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius concludes that the Earth鈥檚 temperature might increase by 5 to 6 degrees Celsius with a doubling of atmospheric CO2 Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius follows early 19th century scientists Jean-Baptiste Fourier and John Tyndall to investigate the role of greenhouse gases in warming Earth鈥檚 surface. Tens of thousands of hand calculations […]
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