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The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature
Author(s) -
Callendar G. S.
Publication year - 1938
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.49706427503
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , environmental science , atmosphere (unit) , carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere , atmospheric sciences , combustion , absorption (acoustics) , carbon fibers , meteorology , chemistry , materials science , geography , geology , organic chemistry , composite material , composite number
By fuel combustion man has added about 150,000 million tons of carbon dioxide to the air during the past half century. The author estimates from the best available data that approximately three quarters of this has remained in the atmosphere. The radiation absorption coefficients of carbon dioxide and water vapour are used to show the effect of carbon dioxide on “sky radiation.” From this the increase in mean temperature, due to the artificial production of carbon dioxide, is estimated to be at the rate of 0.003°C. per year at the present time. The temperature observations a t zoo meteorological stations are used to show that world temperatures have actually increased at an average rate of 0.005°C. per year during the past half century.