We have known of global warming since 1895.

Roccland · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 1644

Cid Yama posted a vid on another climate change thread - in that vid Svante Arrhenius was attributed with identifying a green house gas effect through pollution.

He also won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Tanada

What never ceases to amaze me is how short sighted the typical human ape is. Most if not all denialists have no feel for what the lag time is betwenn greenhouse gas emission and the effect they have on the Earth. We have stayed in our current quasi-stable state for thousands of years due to feedback loops holding us here, uncouple those feedbacks from the climate and things will flip into a new quasi-stable state. But, though the flip takes little time to occure geologically speaking, the effects will still require decades to play out to the end.
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Dr_Jekyll · Tar Sands Joined: Aug 08, 2008 Posts: 60

So who wants to join me in a suicide pact?

Tanada

doc7278 · Coal Joined: Sep 01, 2008 Posts: 8

And people started drilling for oil in 1859 does anyone see a link? No me neither Smile

nocar · Intermediate Crude Joined: Nov 05, 2004 Posts: 675

Well, I have not read Svante Arrhenius myself, but as I understand it, he did not see global warming as a problem, but an advantage. Mind you, he was Swedish and and lots of agricultural and comfort problems arise from too low temperatures here.

Of course, scientists in hotter climates might have seen it otherwise, and were free to ring the alarm bell. The important thing is that he realized and calculated the global warming effect of CO2 when burning fossil fuels.

nocar