The Paris climate summit may go down in history as the singular moment nations decided to tackle the threat of anthropogenic climate change. But few of us appreciate the fact that it’s taken over a ...

The climate change debate is so heated is because it is not scientific at all, but political and economic Credit: Photo: GETTY It all began with a very depressed Swede. On Christmas Eve, 1894 – ...

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In 1895, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius spent the entire year obsessing over a seemingly simple question: Could heat-absorbing gases in the air influence the Earth's ground temperature? As ...

There are two sides to Svante Arrhenius’s legacy with regard to climate change. He is known for having calculated the thermal effect of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over a hundred ...

Oh, only the intellectual parent of the greenhouse gas theory, though he called it the “hot-house theory” — the idea that CO2 produced by industrial coal-burning could hang around in the atmosphere ...

Scientists have long pondered the possibility of life on Venus. Now conies the theory that the first living organisms on the earth were visitors from Venus. Svante Arrhenius, world famed Scandinavian ...

Dr. Svante Arrhenius, Director of the Nobel Institute of Physical Chemistry at Stockholm, Sweden, will deliver the first of three lectures under the auspices of the Boylston Chemical Club in New ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Svante Arrhenius, who lived from 1859-1927, ...