Walthère Victor Spring – A Forerunner in the Study of the Greenhouse Effect

Demarée Gaston R. () and Verheyden Rosiane
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Verheyden Rosiane: Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, B-1180 Brussels, Ringlaan 3, Belgium

Papers on Global Change IGBP, 2016, vol. 23, issue 1, 153-158

Abstract: In 1886, an article by Walthère Spring and Léon Roland, two scientists from the University of Liège, dealing with the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere in Liège appeared in the “Mẻmoires” of the Royal Academy of Belgium. In order to explain the difference between temperatures in the city of Liège and those observed in that city’s environs, the authors invoked the high level of atmospheric CO2. Although the climatological argument was rather weak and the article concerned only a local impact, it is obvious that Spring can be viewed as a precursor of Svante Arrhenius who foresaw global warming in 1895–1896.

Keywords: Walthère Victor Spring; Léon Roland; Svante Arrhenius; the University of Liège; Belgium; the greenhouse effect; atmospheric CO2; global warming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/igbp-2016-0011

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