Climate change might
seem quite new, but history illustrates that we knew what was happening,
and what was likely to happen, as long ago as 1824.
It was in that year that French physicist Joseph Fourier
described the Earth's natural "greenhouse effect".
He wrote then: "The temperature [of the Earth] can
be augmented by the interposition of the atmosphere, because heat in the state
of light finds less resistance in penetrating the air, than in re-passing into
the air when converted into non-luminous heat."
More detail about the history of climate change can be
found on this BBC Science and Environment reported head: “A brief history of climate change”.
No comments:
Post a Comment