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Guy Stewart Callendar.
Guy Stewart Callendar (1897-1964), a British steam engineer, was the first scientist to study climate change in a rigorous and systematic way and the first to empirically connect rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere with the increase in the Earth’s temperature. In 1938, Callendar published a paper titled The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature, the first of many articles on the subject. He noted a significant upward trend in temperatures for the first four decades of the 20th century and a continuously rising concentration of atmospheric CO2 since post-industrial times. He linked these trends to the combustion of fossil fuels, describing it as an enhanced "greenhouse effect" where infrared radiation is both absorbed and emitted by the extra CO2, causing warming at the Earth's surface. For decades, scientists ignored, criticized, or downplayed Callendar’s work, yet research in the 1990s proved his early work to be surprisingly accurate considering the level of data monitoring available in the early 1900's.
Fleming, James Rodger. 2007. The Callendar Effect. The life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Boston: American Meteorological Society. ISBN: 1878220764
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2007. "Guy Stewart Callendar". Scribner's. ISBN: 0684313200
Cutler Cleveland (Lead Author);Tom Lawrence (Topic Editor) "Callendar, Guy Stewart". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 23, 2008; Last revised Date May 7, 2012; Retrieved May 26, 2012 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Callendar,_Guy_Stewart>
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The Encyclopedia of Earth Cutler J. Cleveland is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. Dr. Cleveland is currently a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Boston University, with joint appointments in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future. He also is a Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington D.C. Dr. Cleveland is als ... (Full Bio)
Guy Stewart Callendar.
Guy Stewart Callendar (1897-1964), a British steam engineer, was the first scientist to study climate change in a rigorous and systematic way and the first to empirically connect rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere with the increase in the Earth’s temperature. In 1938, Callendar published a paper titled The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature, the first of many articles on the subject. He noted a significant upward trend in temperatures for the first four decades of the 20th century and a continuously rising concentration of atmospheric CO2 since post-industrial times. He linked these trends to the combustion of fossil fuels, describing it as an enhanced "greenhouse effect" where infrared radiation is both absorbed and emitted by the extra CO2, causing warming at the Earth's surface. For decades, scientists ignored, criticized, or downplayed Callendar’s work, yet research in the 1990s proved his early work to be surprisingly accurate considering the level of data monitoring available in the early 1900's.
Fleming, James Rodger. 2007. The Callendar Effect. The life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Boston: American Meteorological Society. ISBN: 1878220764
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2007. "Guy Stewart Callendar". Scribner's. ISBN: 0684313200
Guy Stewart Callendar.
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