Future Calculations | Distillations | Science History Institute
Q. When did scientists learn about the role of carbon dioxide in climate?
A. A long time ago but for many years they have doubts or wouldn’t worry. The warmer the better, isn’t it ?
Q. Have you ever been in a place with 115 degrees Fahrenheit ( 46.1C)? Now tell me how it is better …
How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming | JSTOR Daily
“But the road to understanding climate change stretches back to the tweed-clad middle years of the 19th century—when Victorian-era scientists conducted the first experiments proving that runaway CO2 could, one day, cook the planet.”
Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented to Provide Comfort to Human Beings | IEEE Spectrum
“Air conditioning was devised not for comfort but for industry, specifically to control temperature and humidity in a color printing factory in Brooklyn. The process required feeding paper into the presses a number of times, once for each of the component colors, and the slightest misalignment caused by changes in humidity produced defective copies that had to be thrown away.”