Climate Change and Energy Solutions Overview

1. Consilience is a stronger condition than consensus as the conclusion is

supported by multiple lines of inquiry often from di<erent disciplines. 2.

Svante Arrhenius was the Swedish Chemist who first calculated the e<ect of the

concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide on the planet. 3. 4.

The Charney Report first introduced the terms global warming and climate change.

Charles Keeling was an American Chemist who began recording levels of

atmospheric CO2 atop Mauna Loa in 1958. 5. 6.

The Keeling Curve is the longest continuous measurement of atmospheric CO2. Seasonal variations