Environmental History Timeline

“1896
swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, claims that burning coal will cause a Tagar#globalwarming effect due to an increase in Tagar#carbondioxide in the Tagar#atmosphere.

1917
Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, writes, “The unchecked burning of Tagar#fossilfuels would have a sort of Tagar#greenhouse effect.” This statement used the terminology from Fourier from 1824, the claims of Foote in 1856 and Arrhenius in 1896, and now connects this effect to all fossil fuels.”

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