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In 1895, Svante August Arrhenius (1859-1927) (see picture 1), a Swedish scholar and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, presented a study to the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, explaining that the climate depends on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. He reached conclusions which remain pertinent today : the increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is the cause of an increase of several degrees in the mean temperature of the planet.
He established a connection between the level of atmospheric CO2, the Ice Ages, the burning of fossil fuels and the temperature. For him, industrial activity would be a means of delaying the onset of the next Ice Age !!! |