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TheImpressiveX ( @TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ) English52•5 months agoAlt-text:
Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he’d “wasted over a full year” doing tedious calculations by hand about “so trifling a matter” as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).
friendly_ghost ( @friendly_ghost@beehaw.org ) English19•5 months agoGoddammit, Randall. This is the worst “we are farther from X than X is to Y” yet
GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months agoWhat? We didn’t figure out the “greenhouse effect” in 2024
KickMeElmo ( @KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz ) English16•5 months agoYou misread it. It says we figured it out in 1896.
GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English6•5 months agoOh. Yeah I guess I misread that sentence. Me dumb
redjard ( @Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•5 months agoAbsolutely nothing of relevance happened closer to the start of the industrial revolution than to when we figured out the greenhouse effect today