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The Climate Legacy of Svante Arrhenius (2020)

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Conspiracy theories Greenhouse gases Controversies and disputes Thermodynamics Climate change 21st century 20th century Arrhenius, Svante Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

There are two sides to Svante Arrhenius’s legacy with regard to climate change. He is known for having calculated the thermal effect of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over a hundred years ago. In that capacity, he can be said to be one of the founders of today’s climate science. But Arrhenius is also remembered for an equation that bears his name that specifies how the rates of chemical reactions depend on temperature. The equation does not seem to be a part of mainstream climate science, but it has been taken up by some non-mainstream representatives to emphasize the role of degassing from the oceans. The equation, in their view, proves that human activities only account for about half the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the rest coming from the oceans. Thus Arrhenius has been used both to construct today’s mainstream climate theory and to underpin the critique against that theory. The dominant upholder of the mainstream theory, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its opponents should recognise that there is a broader view of what Arrhenius can contribute to climate science.

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Authors & Contributors
Aird, Rosemary
Barak, On
Bohlin, Ingemar
Bowe, Brian J.
Buys, Laurie
Chao, Wen-Chi
Journals
Ethics, Place and Environment
Social Studies of Science
Public Understanding of Science
Science as Culture
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
MIT Press
Routledge
University of California Press
Concepts
Climate change
Greenhouse gases
Controversies and disputes
Climate and climatology
Public understanding of science
Science and society
People
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Gore, Albert
Margulis, Lynn
Tyndall, John
Foote, Eunice
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Africa
Soviet Union
Australia
European Union
Europe
Institutions
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
UK Committee on Climate Change
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