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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1059863)3/12/2018 12:07:37 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1575388
 
"there has never been a case for CO2 having a measurable ability to globally warm the earth"

In the 1850s, John Tyndall made quantitative measurements of the heat trapping capacity of various gases, including CO2.
Tyndall J. 1859a. On the transmission of heat of different qualities through gases of different kinds Proceedings of the Royal Institution 3: 155–158.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

There was somebody else B4 Tyndall; an American woman beat him by 3 years….

Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist with a lively interest in many topics, from campaigning for women’s rights to filing patents for boot soles. In 1856, she wrote a paper books.google.co.uk

for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reporting on her measurements of the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide. She even speculated that if, “at one period of [earth’s] history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion [of CO2] than at present, an increased temperature from its own action must necessarily have resulted” – in other words, if there were more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, then it would trap more heat, and the earth would be warmer
blog.ucsusa.org
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