[MCN] On seeing it coming -- in 1896

[Lance Olsen]

Svante Arrhenius' 1896 model, vastly simpler than 
the models of today, told him pretty clearly that 
the growing combustion of fossil fuels would lead 
to a tough world for the likes of ice and snow. 
He even saw implications for change in radiation 
balance via change of albedo. That was 1896.

How he did it then might be a story worth wider 
telling now, an era when even local newspapers 
have been doing a lot of reporting on 
consequences of losing ice and snow.
Lance

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 - 2 
October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally 
a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, 
and one of the founders of the science of 
physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize 
for Chemistry in 1903, becoming the first Swedish 
Nobel laureate, and in 1905 became director of 
the Nobel Institute where he remained until his 
death.[1] The Arrhenius equation, Arrhenius 
definition of an acid, lunar crater Arrhenius, 
the mountain of Arrheniusfjellet and the 
Arrhenius Labs at Stockholm University are named 
after him. Today, Arrhenius is best known for his 
study published in 1896, on the greenhouse effect.

Wiki's full biography w/photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius


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"Consumer expectations of ever-higher living 
standards were fuelled by more lenient and 
readily available bank lending, the subsequent 
booms in construction and property market 
sectors, .... Social status and identity became 
closely associated with consumption, in 
particular with the concept of luxury. 
Identifying oneself with the good life meant 
being able to live beyond traditional 
understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price 
one paid for the joys of being part of a 
hedonistic consumer culture."

Kenneth Dyson.The Morality of Debt.
Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt

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"Š the serious meaning in a concept lies in the
difference it will make to someone if it is true."

William James (1842 -1910)
Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955






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