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[THREAD] #climatechange, #climateaction, #ethics in research and communication, #merchantsofdoubts.
Let’s start from the *very* beginning. In 1856 Eunice Foote published a paper titled “Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays” (static1.squarespace.com/static/5a26141…)
Let’s start from the *very* beginning. In 1856 Eunice Foote published a paper titled “Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays” (static1.squarespace.com/static/5a26141…)
showing the capability of CO2 to retain more heat than atmosphere and hydrogen if exposed to sunlight. Following this discovery, she theorized, first in history, that CO2-enriched atmosphere would be warmer: she was paving the road to the understanding of the Greenhouse Effect.
40 years later, Svante Arrhenius wrote another seminal paper, “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground” (rsc.org/images/Arrheni…), where he explicitly stated that burning fossil fuels could potentially lead
