Henry Wexler of the US Weather Bureau and Roger Revelle of S…
Henry Wexler of the US Weather Bureau and Roger Revelle of Scripps Institute of Oceanography both wanted Charles David Keeling to launch a program that would continuously measure __________ at remote weather stations around the world (e.g. Mauna Loa (Hawaii) and Little America (Antarctica).
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In 1957, Roger Revelle and his colleague Hans Seuss were concerned that most of the excess carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel combustion would be absorbed by the oceans but quickly exchanged back to the atmosphere leading to global warming. They were not the first to predict the trouble ahead. What Swedish chemist predicted an atmospheric hothouse from the same scenario (though he thought it would take centuries to occur) in 1896?
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