XKCD BotFeb 2, 2024
Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).
https://xkcd.com/2889/
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Show threadVesna ManojlovićFeb 2, 2024
@xkcd Eunice Foote was earlier: she figured out greenhouse effect in 1856 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote
Eunice Newton Foote - Wikipedia

Show threadPepijnFeb 3, 2024
@becha @xkcd Did she make the link with our industrial activity? I never read that before and the Wikipedia page doesn't state so.
Show threadVesna ManojlovićFeb 3, 2024
@Pepijn @xkcd good question - and maybe she didn't , so the guys featured in the XKCD deserve recognition for that... However, I find it sad that this was *AGAIN* a missed opportunity to promote a woman scientist, on such a popular "blog" .
Show threadPepijnFeb 3, 2024
@becha @xkcd Ah, sorry. I didn't realize it was about the angle of the person. For me the bit about it being linked to our industrial actions is what matters as that is what the ongoing debate on "when did we know" is about.
Show threadVesna Manojlović
@Pepijn @xkcd from Wikipedia: in Eunice Foote's paper from 1956, she was "hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere would alter the climate."
Feb 3, 2024 at 1:46pmWeb