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On increasing global temperatures: 75 years after Callendar
Author(s) -
Hawkins Ed,
Jones Phil. D.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.2178
Subject(s) - global warming , fossil fuel , environmental science , climatology , climate change , combustion , carbon dioxide , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , physical geography , geology , geography , chemistry , oceanography , organic chemistry
In 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar was the first to demonstrate that the Earth's land surface was warming. Callendar also suggested that the production of carbon dioxide by the combustion of fossil fuels was responsible for much of this modern change in climate. This short note marks the 75th anniversary of Callendar's landmark study and demonstrates that his global land temperature estimates agree remarkably well with more recent analyses.