History Flashcards
Who was Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier and his relation to climate change theory?
What year did he discover this phenomenon?
First person to propose that the earths atmosphere acts to hold in the suns heat energy, titled the ‘Greenhouse Effect’
In the 1820s
Who was John Tyndall and his relation to climate change theory?
What year did he discover this phenomenon?
First person to measure the relative infrared absorportive powers of nitrogen, oxygen, and CO2, methane, water vapour, affirming the ‘Greenhouse Effect’
In the late 1850s
Who was Eunice Newtown Foote and her relation to climate change theory?
What experiment captured this and when was it held?
Argued that concentrations of Co2 in the air could influence global temperatures
In 1856, a presentation to the AAS had Eunice filling glass jars with water vapour, CO2 and air and comparing how much they heated up in the sun
Who was Arvid Hogbom and his relation to climate change theory?
First person to quantify sources of Co2 emissions, finding human activites were adding Co2 to the atmosphere, pioneering the ‘Carbon Cycle’
Who was Svante Arrhenius and his relation to the climate theory?
What year did he discover this phenomenon?
Realised human influences, based on Hogboms calculations, could eventually lead to a doubling of atmospheric CO2, coining ‘Greenhouse Effect’
In 1896
Who was Nils Ekholm and his relation to climate change theory?
What year did he discover this phenomenon?
Popularised the greenhouse effect metaphor
In 1901
Who was Guy Callendar and his relation to climate change theory?
What year did he propose this phenomenon and what scientist rebuttled this claim?
Promoted the idea that rising Co2 would induce warming
In 1983
Sir George Simpson stating ‘Co2 in the atmosphere has no appreciable effect on the climate’
Who was Charles Keeling and his relation to climate change theory?
Where did he do his work?
He produced the ‘keeling curve’ which graphs the daily record of global concentration of Co2 in the atmosphere since 1958, showing a steady increase over the period.
Mauna Loa Observatory
What year was it first suggested that human activites could change the world’s climate?
1850s
Who was Paul Ehrlich and his relation to climate change theory?
When was this contribution released?
Published the ‘The Population Bomb’ book which detailed a pessimistic and bleak future for humanity under the assumption of mass starvation based on the expanding population
In 1968
What famous media outlet produced an article in 1975 on global cooling but had issued an update in 2006 stating they were ‘spectacularly wrong about the near-term future’?
Newsweek
Who is James Hansen and his relation to climate change theory?
When did he make this statement?
Made one of the first assessments that human-caused warming had already measurably affected global climate
In 1988
What significantly happened in 1988?
The World Meteorological Organisation established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Since the IPCC was established, what grew exponentially?
The number of publications with ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ keys
What happened in 1992?
The establishment of the ‘UNFCCC’ at the Earth Summit in Rio
Took 5 years post to translate binding targets for the industrialised world
