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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (180299)11/15/2021 4:31:59 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (2) of 218137
 
Irony of times and hysteria of the media all assume that this autistic poor girl that is now manipulated by interested parties started it all- how sad - a sick autistic selfish world!!



I started worrying about energy savings in 1982, when designing an 250 W electronic ballast based on magnetic hysteresis of small ferrite cores as LLC resonant converters and solid state transformers (SST) to save on silicon steel transformer core and copper wire, way, way before this poor girl attracted headlines...... and more surprises below!!




This 1902 article attributes to Svante Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could eventually lead to human extinction




This 1912 article succinctly describes the greenhouse effect, focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change
In 1896 Svante Arrhenius used Langley's observations of increased infrared absorption where Moon rays pass through the atmosphere at a low angle, encountering more carbon dioxide (CO2), to estimate an atmospheric cooling effect from a future decrease of CO2. He realized that the cooler atmosphere would hold less water vapor (another greenhouse gas) and calculated the additional cooling effect. He also realized the cooling would increase snow and ice cover at high latitudes, making the planet reflect more sunlight and thus further cool down, as James Croll had hypothesized. Overall Arrhenius calculated that cutting CO2 in half would suffice to produce an ice age. He further calculated that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 would give a total warming of 5–6 degrees Celsius

Further, Arrhenius' colleague Arvid Högbom, who was quoted in length in Arrhenius' 1896 study On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Earth had been attempting to quantify natural sources of emissions of CO2 for purposes of understanding the global carbon cycle. Högbom found that estimated carbon production from industrial sources in the 1890s (mainly coal burning) was comparable with the natural sources. Arrhenius saw that this human emission of carbon would eventually

lead to warming. However, because of the relatively low rate of CO2 production in 1896, Arrhenius thought the warming would take thousands of years, and he expected it would be beneficial to humanity.

In 1899 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin developed at length the idea that climate changes could result from changes in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Chamberlin wrote in his 1899 book, An Attempt to Frame a Working Hypothesis of the Cause of Glacial Periods on an Atmospheric Basis:

The sad part is that the whole episode that in 1896 was totally ignored by the media and the world is coming to haunt us now.

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