Sheril Kirshenbaum

The first sentence in this paper by Svante Arrhenius from *1896*

“A GREAT deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the #climate”.

This paper was the first to quantify the contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect - over 126 years ago!

Dec 3, 2022 at 6:08amMetatext
Show thread@marisamorbyDec 3, 2022
@Sheril It’s amazing how long we’ve been warned about the risk of climate change. In 1799 Alexander von Humboldt visited some agricultural fields that had once been forested area. He noted that the once huge lake had been diminished and the land surrounding it was much less healthy than the forested area. He warned that aggressive agricultural practices at large scale risked changing the climate to a dangerous degree.
Show threadClimate QuestDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Yes! I thought you might enjoy this cartoon about Eunice Foote to go with that :) https://mas.to/@climate_quest/109445225669971560
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Attached: 1 image We've known about the warming effect of CO2 for a very long time. "The highest effect of the sun's rays I have found to be in carbonic acid gas. ... An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature ... must necessarily have resulted." - Eunice Foote, 1856 Carbonic acid gas is CO2. #climatechange #science #discovery

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Show threadKeith McGrathDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Indeed, global warming through the influence of atmospheric gasses is NOT a new phenomena!
Show threadBrigitte NerlichDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Amazing! And, of course, saddening!
Show threadAlbert CardonaDec 3, 2022
@Sheril We’ve known for so long that the atmospheric CO2 concentration was changing the climate, there’s no excuse whatsoever. Eunice Newton Foote, Svante Arrhenius, the Humble Oil Company report (now ExxonMobil), Edward Teller, Carl Sagan. Research and data spanning two centuries of warnings yet we did nothing and even today do so very little: https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20210407_two_centuries_of_global_warming_warnings.html
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Show threadAlexandradalDec 3, 2022
@Sheril did you know? In 1856, a woman experimented with glass vials and noted how CO2 had a warming effect, Eunice Newton Foote.
https://twitter.com/Alexandradal1/status/1495413558246625280?t=y16FvsQMYexsbw-QDxMRLQ&s=19
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“In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote made experiments with glass cylinders. One was filled with carbon dioxide and exposed to the sun. She wrote a paper where she remarks: “An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature.””

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Show threadTom NewsomDec 3, 2022
@Sheril In the big picture, “A GREAT deal has been written” is what has been accomplished in 126 years. Sad, but true.