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Barometer: Who was the first warmist?

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5 December 2015

9:00 AM

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

The first warmist

The first attempt to quantify the link between CO2 in the atmosphere and global temperatures was attributed to Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius, in a paper in the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science in 1896. He was working on a theory to explain the oscillation between ice ages and interglacial periods.

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