Viewpoints
Global Warming Letters
By Tori Jackson
June 29, 2006
Thursday
From Patrick Branco's letter, "It is amazing that the Swedish
scientist was able to calculate that human burning of fossil
fuels raised the global temperature. Idiotic or brilliant? I
wonder how he was able to calculate the difference between worldwide
forest fires and the amount of firewood burned by man. Perhaps
that is how he earned the Nobel Prize 5 years before it was ever
awarded for the first time."
And from Anne Mareck's letter, "In 1896 the Nobel laurate
(sic) Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius calculated the amount
of CO2 emitted by industry of the time (remember that the human
population of the earth at the time was only 1 billion people)
and found that it was possible for human activity to raise global
temperature, through the burning fossil fuels (coal gasses, so
to speak) and the burning of wood."
In Ms. Mareck s defense, she does NOT say that Svante Arrhenius
won the Nobel Prize in 1896, but that he calculated the amount
of CO2 emitted by industry in 1896. If you go to Nobelprize.org
you will see that Svante Arrhenius won the The Nobel Prize in
Chemistry 1903. While I never thought she was trying to say
that he won the prize in 1896, she definitely would have been
more clear had she said: 'In 1896 the future Nobel laureate,
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius, calculated the amount'.
Tori Jackson
Port Angeles, WA - USA
About: Tori Jackson writes:
"Former Ketchikan resident currently living in the state
of Washington."
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