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xkcd #2889: Greenhouse Effect (imgs.xkcd.com)
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Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Eunice Newton Foote beat them to it.