WHEN SVANTE ARRHENIUS DID HIS CALCULATIONS IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, HE PREDICTED THAT THE AMOUNT OF CO2 RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STARTED 50 YEARS EARLIER WAS ENOUGH TO RAISE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES BY ABOUT 2 (TWO) DEGREES CELSIUS.
WAS HE CORRECT?
To a great degree, Arrhenius was accurate. Yet more than 130 years later, with emissions of CO2 from our industries having gone more than ten folds on his input, our planet has only warmed up by 1.49 degrees Celsius…
What happened? What is happening and what will happen?
The industrial revolution changed the Western World, which in turn changed the rest of the human planet…