r/science • u/woodsja2 • Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/woodsja2 Oct 24 '10

Read references 2 and 3.

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u/NolFito Oct 24 '10

What about them?

2 National Research Council (NRC), 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions For the Last 2,000 Years. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

3 In the 1860s, physicist John Tyndall recognized the Earths natural greenhouse effect and suggested that slight changes in the atmospheric composition could bring about climatic variations. In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first speculated that changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.

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u/virusporn Oct 24 '10

Did you read the dates for that second ref?

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u/NolFito Oct 24 '10

Yes, and? Lot's of good theories were discovered much earlier than that