Imagen de svante arrhenius global warming

In the late 19th century, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius calculated that burning fossil fuels will, over time, lead to a hotter Earth.

Using the principles of physical chemistry, he estimated that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide were responsible for the Earth’s increasing surface temperature — a phenomenon now known as the “greenhouse effect.” 

On October 15, 1902, the Selma Morning Times printed a stark notice of Arrhenius’s research:

Hint to Coal Consumers.

A Swedish professor, Svend Arrhenius, has evolved a new theory of the extinction of the human race. He holds that the combustion of coal by civilized man is gradually warming the atmosphere so that in the course of a few cycles of 10,000 years the earth will be baked in a temperature close to the boiling point.

He bases his theory on the accumulation of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, which acts as a glass in concentrating an