Climate Science Pioneers
This 1856 experimenter discovered that CO2 traps heat in glass cylinders, foreshadowing global warming.
Who is Eunice Newton Foote?
The Petrocene Age began around the same time this fossil fuel industry was born in 1859.
What is the oil industry?
Three years after Foote, this Irish physicist proved that certain gases trap heat and coined the idea now known as the greenhouse effect.
Who is John Tyndall?
The 1908 invention of this car symbolized the mass adoption of fossil fuel combustion.
What is the Ford Model T?
This Swedish chemist calculated that a 50% increase in CO2 from 1890 would raise global temperatures by 6°F.
Who is Svante Arrhenius?
The era marked by humanity’s influence on Earth’s climate and ecosystems is called this.
What is the Anthropocene
This early 20th-century scientist first coined the term “greenhouse effect.”
Who is John Poynting?
This mid-20th-century scientist’s Congressional testimony described humanity’s CO2 emissions as a “tremendous geophysical experiment.”
Who is Roger Revelle?