A good way to continue this debate is to first take a moment to review the milestones of Climate Science achievements. This will offer a more realistic portrait than E.M.’s assessment: “Climate science (in the scope of science) is relatively new” The list starts with Joseph Fourier discovering the greenhouse effect in 1824 and was compiled by Dr. Spencer Weart the retired Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
After the list I will return to the above sentence and its related paragraphs.
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The History of Modern Climate Science
Source “The Discovery of Global Warming” by Spencer Weart
Second edition (revised and updated 2008)
The history of climate science goes back to the early 1900's. This section contains a chronological listing of relevant climate science discoveries and events related to anthropogenic global warming. The information here was compiled by Spencer Weart the retired Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
The Short History:
▪ 1824 - Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect.
▪ 1859 - John Tyndall discovered that H2O and CO2 absorb infrared confirming the Fourier greenhouse effect.
▪ 1896 - Svante Arrhenius proposed human CO2 emissions would prevent earth from entering next ice age (challenged 1906).
▪ 1950’s Guy Callendar found H2O and CO2 did not overlap all spectra bands, therefore warming from CO2 expected (countered the 1906 objections against Arrhenius).
