Greenhouse Effect - Perfecting a theory
Perfecting a theory
Two scientists in the nineteenth century expanded Fourier's theory. In 1861, English physicist John Tyndall said that certain atmospheric gases, such as carbon monoxide and water vapor, warmed Earth's surface. In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius made the greenhouse theory clearer in a scientific article. He stated that increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could trap more of the heat energy rising from Earth. More trapped heat energy meant warmer temperatures
on Earth's surface. Arrhenius was the first to understand the concept of global warmingWarming of Earth's atmosphere as a result of an increase in the concentration of gases that store heat, such as carbon dioxide. and climate changes because of the greenhouse effect.
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