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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#1C1C1C">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#1C1C1C">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#1C1C1C">Lance</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#1C1C1C"><b>From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Svante August Arrhenius</b> (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.<b> Today,
Arrhenius is best known for his study published in 1896, on the
greenhouse effect.</b></font></div>
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<div><b>Wiki's full biography w/photo:</b></div>
<div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius</div>
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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
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Kenneth Dyson.The Morality of Debt.<br>
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make to someone if it is true."<br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000"><i>Pragmatism</i>.
Meridian Books, 1955</font></div>
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