It is interesting to see how long scientists have known about the greenhouse effect and what it could do to our planet. People talk about it sometimes like it's this totally new fad theory, but it's been in the scientific literature for over a century.
Pt. 2: The Greenhouse effect
Very basically: Greenhouse gases are better at reflecting radiated heat than at reflecting sunlight, which is why more greenhouse gases lead to about the same amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface, but more of the then radiated heat staying in the earths atmosphere.
Without a greenhouse effect the earths surface temperature would be about −18 °C (−0.4 °F), so the planet would be uninhabitable by humans.
Too much greenhouse gas however increases the earths temperature above a temperature, where its healthy and comfortable to live on earth as humans.
We know the earth is warming, as we established in the previous post.
Let's next find out how we know that this global heating is human made - or rather capitalism made.
Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the greenhouse effect
In research presented in 1856, Eunice Newton Foote
The first record of a physics article by a female scientist, described Foote’s experiments looking at how tubes of different gases, such as oxygen, air, hydrogen and carbon dioxide, warmed when exposed to sunlight.
She concluded that “The highest effect of the sun’s rays I have found to be in primarily carbon dioxide.
@GW it is really disgusting that we have known about the #GreenHouseEffect 170 years and we are still in the crisis. Nothing accounts for the stupidity of self interest.
Unternehmen wie Exxon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Gazprom, BP, TotalEnergies, RWE und andere zerstören für den schnellen Profit durch Finanzierung und Durchführung fossiler Projekte wissentlich unsere Lebensgrundlage.
"Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between #atmospheric#CO2 and what is now known as the 👉#GreenhouseEffect in 1859👈."
Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen können, v.a. nicht im 19. Jahrhundert, als allgemein
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On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground
#Arrhenius’s paper is the first to quantify the contribution of #CarbonDioxide to the #GreenhouseEffect and to speculate about whether variations in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide have contributed to long-term variations in climate.