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Climate Change Part 12: The Keeling Curve 1961
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist who first alerted the world to the possibility…
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Climate Change Part 11: Roger Revelle Rebels 1957
It takes a special kind of person to break ranks, and challenge the basic assumptions…
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Climate Change Part 10: Gilbert Plass Warns 1956
We have chronicled several early warnings of climate change on these pages. But we have…
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Climate Change Part 9: The Callendar Line 1938
We don’t know too much about Guy Stewart Callendar as a person. Except that he…
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Climate Change Part 8: 2 Billion Souls in 1930
The steadily increasing saturation of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere is at least in part due…
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Climate Change Part 7: 1927 Passed Us By
1927 was a watershed year for humanity, although the people hardly noticed. The disasters of…
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Climate Change Part 6: Knut Angström 1900
Life, science and knowledge have their ups and downs. First, John Tyndall demonstrated how greenhouse…
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Climate Change Part 5: Greenhouse Understood 1884
Svante August Arrhenius, born 1859 was one of the greatest scientific minds of his era.…
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Climate Change Part 4: The Motorwagen 1873
Karl Benz did not realize the damage his motor car invention would cause. Any more…
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Climate Change Part 3: Role of Water Vapor 1851
Scientists generally accepted Joseph Fourier’s 1824 assertion that “earth’s atmosphere functioned as an insulator” creating…