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A Brief Intro to the History of Climate Change ~ save this post as a good reference✨
In ????????????????, a physicist named Joseph Fourier introduces the natural “greenhouse effect” describing how the Earth’s atmosphere and temperature are related.
In ????????????????, another physicist named John Tyndal, demonstrates how water vapour and certain gases create the “greenhouse effect”. He further explained, the Earth’s “vapour is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life than clothing is to man”.
A series of debates conflicted the science community for decades on the greenhouse effect, global warming and what a temperature increase would mean to our planet. In ????????????????, one chemist even argued that coal burning will enhance our atmosphere, benefitting our future generations greatly.
In ????????????????, an oceanographer named, Roger Revelle, proved seawater will not absorb the additional CO2 entering the atmosphere as many had claimed.
In ????????????????, the first UN Environment Conference took place in Stockholm. Climate change was barely discussed; issues on chemical pollution, atomic bomb testing and whaling took priority. This led to The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
In ????????????????, Montreal Protocol agreed to restrict chemicals that damage the ozone layer… although this was not established with climate change in mind. This agreement actually had a greater impact on greenhouse gas emissions than the Kyoto Protocol.
In ????????????????, Kyoto Protocol agreed that developed nations will reduce emissions by an average of 5% by 2012. In ????????????????, President George W Bush removed the US from the agreement despite being the number on nation contributing to climate change.
… this post is to be continued on @zocogirl
In researching this, it really opened my eyes to how long climate change has been researched… 200 years. Yet, only in the last two decades [noticeably as information has become more accessible to the public] has real change, movements and agreements been made???? ???? – @pinterest
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