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@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury Some people really need to 'keep up' ...
Climate Models all began with Newton, with other branches entering the fray as science emerged in succeeding 300 years (incomplete list)

1728 - Newton’s Principia published in English (discrete mechanics) 1/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1738 - Daniel Bernoulli publishes “Hydrodynamics” (continuous mechanics)
1757 - Euler publishes partial differential equations that apply to fluids
1800 - Herschel discovers ‘radiant heat’ in spectrum
1827 - Fourier published paper proposing what we now call greenhouse effect 2/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1836 - Agassiz coins term “Ice Ages”
1840 - Navier-Stokes equations publ’d (extending Euler), ubiquitous in fluid dynamics, utility beyond doubt and btw used in climate models
1850 - Alexander von Humboldt publishes ‘Views of Nature’ 3/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1850 - Clausius-Calpeyron equation publ’d linking water temp. to vapour pressure
1861 - Tyndall publ'd work on heat trapping gases, showing CO2, CH4 etc. strong greenhouse gases, whereas N2 and O2 not.
1879 - Stefan’s Law pubs’d relevant to radiative behaviour of black bodies 4/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1890 - Cleveland Abbe states that “meteorology is essentially the application of hydrodynamic and thermodynamics to the atmosphere”
1896 - Arrhenius does first calcn of warming from doubling CO2
1900 - Planck publishes quantum theory of black body spectrum 5/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1920 - Aston proposes isotopes
1920s - Quantum theory of atoms and molecules explains many aspects of response to different frequencies of light
1938 - Guy Callendar publ'd evidence of warming correlated with raised CO2 in atmosphere (as expected) 6/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1947 - Harold Urey publ’d paper showing how to use isotopes to measure temps. in past climates
1948 - Manchester Mk 1 earliest stored-program computers
1950 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar publishes definitive treatise on “Radiative Transfer” 7/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1952 - W.H. Cloud publishes accurate results for CO2 15micron band over Earth relevant conditions
1954 William Thomson coins word “thermodynamics”
1954 - Cesare Emiliani publ'd 1stof series of papers based on Urey’s methods
1958 - Keeling start contiguous measurements of CO2 8/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1967 - Manabe & Wetherald first fully formed computer model of warming
1973 - “Given this new mathematical medium .. more complete physical theories may possibly be developed" David Potter, “Computational Physics”, Wiley, 1973
1983 - Hansen et al - 3D global climate model 9/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury 1988 - IPCC formed.
1990 - IPCC 1st assessment report says that 1C rise in GMST likely by 2025 (it came earlier than that) and 3C by 2100.
1999 - J.R. Petit et all recover 420,000 yr old ice cores from Vostock - showing role of CO2 over several ice ages 10/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury Full circle ...
2002 - GRACE Satelittes, using Newtonian gravitation/ mechanics measure ice loss from great ice sheets.
Climate science relies on fundamental science/ methods proven in their utility in many different fields and applications. Keep up people! END/

@pmbbiggsy @RHarrabin @James_BG @ECIU_UK @CraigBennett3 @tom_burke_47 @CarbonBrief @hmtreasury Errata - 1854 for William Thomson of course.