2024-02-03 00:48:01.210062+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Today's XKCD points out that "we figured out the greenhouse effect closer to the start of the Industrial Revolution than today".
Meanwhile, the IPCC estimates from 1990 for "no action" closely match the current situation.
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#Comment Re: Greenhouse Effect quantified in 1896 made: 2024-02-03 01:34:07.748084+01 by: spc476
And the tooltip text on that cartoon:
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).