Svante Arrhenius Paper 1896...

[Fred Bloggs]

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish physicist and physical chemist who formulated the theory of electrolytic dissociation, for which he was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize. One of the founding fathers of physical chemistry, Arrhenius also presented a revolutionary model of the greenhouse effect.

On the Influence of Carbonic Acid
in the Air upon the Temperature of
the Ground

https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

This is a very detailed study establishing the scientific foundations of the greenhouse effect.

People were too busy with killing one another and pursuing material wealth to pay any attention to it.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Friday, March 17, 2023 at 10:49:25 PM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish physicist and physical chemist who formulated the theory of electrolytic dissociation, for which he was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize. One of the founding fathers of physical chemistry, Arrhenius also presented a revolutionary model of the greenhouse effect.

On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground

https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

This is a very detailed study establishing the scientific foundations of the greenhouse effect.

People were too busy with killing one another and pursuing material wealth to pay any attention to it.

The real story is a little more complicated than that.

Svante Arrhenius had had the right idea, but the first values published for the extinction coefficient of carbon dioxide in air didn\'t capture the fine structure of the CO2 absorbtion lines and made it look as if his theory was wrong. It took a while for the spectroscopists to resolve the P- Q- and R- branches of the CO2 absorbtion lines, and even longer for the field to realise that Arrhennius had actually got it right

https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm

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Bill Sloman, Sydney