- 31 Aug 2023 17:17
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But he was apparently unaware of Angstrom's experiment that showed adding CO2 to ordinary atmospheric air had no measurable effect on its infrared transmission properties.
Robert Urbanek wrote:Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb"
. . . was one of the first prominent people to raise the danger of climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels. At an address to the membership of the American Chemical Society in December 1957, Teller warned that the large amount of carbon-based fuel that had been burnt since the mid-19th century was increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would "act in the same way as a greenhouse and will raise the temperature at the surface"
- Per Wikipedia
No one ever called Teller a Marxist or a tree-hugging liberal.
But he was apparently unaware of Angstrom's experiment that showed adding CO2 to ordinary atmospheric air had no measurable effect on its infrared transmission properties.