Science

An engineer warned about man-made global warming in 1938 — and was ignored

Guy Stewart Callendar was a steam engineer, not a climatologist, when he compiled global temperature and CO2 records and argued fossil-fuel emissions had already warmed the planet's land by about 0.3°C. Most meteorologists at the time dismissed him as an outsider. Retrospective studies decades later found his hand-calculated estimates were remarkably close to the real numbers.

Guy Stewart Callendar, The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature — Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 64, 1938

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