Title	Greenhouse effect and ice ages; historical perspective
Author	Bard, E.
Author Affil	Bard, E., Collège de France, Chaire d'Évolution du Climat et de l'Océan, France
Source	Paléoclimatologie--Palaeoclimatology, edited by A. Berger and J. Duplessy. Comptes Rendus - Académie des Sciences. Géoscience, 336(7-8), p.603-638, . Publisher: Elsevier, Paris, France. ISSN: 1631- 0713
Publication Date	Jun. 2004
Notes	In English with French summary. 49 refs. GeoRef Acc. No: 285226
Index Terms	climatic change; fossils; glacial geology; glaciation; global change; global warming; greenhouse effect; history; instruments; landforms; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; ancient ice ages; climate change; climate forcing; orbital forcing; paleoenvironment; Phanerozoic; Precambrian; reconstruction
Abstract	This article provides a brief historical perspective on the first scientific research on the greenhouse effect and glaciations. While these two aspects of our climate can be investigated separately, naturalists, physicists and chemists during the 19th century were interested jointly in both issues, as well as the possible relationship between them. The contributions of famous pioneers are mentioned, ranging from scholars with encyclopedic knowledge such as Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, to modern scientists like Svante Arrhenius, who was first to predict global warming as a consequence of using fossil fuels. Despite fragmentary observations, these pioneers had prophetic insights. Indeed, the main fundamental concepts used nowadays have been developed during the 19th century. However, we must wait until the second half of the 20th century to see a true revolution of investigative techniques in the earth sciences, enabling full access to previously unknown components of the climate system, such as deep oceans and the interior of the polar ice caps. To cite this article: E. Bard, C. R. Geoscience 336 (2004).
URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.crte.2004.02.005
Publication Type	journal article
Record ID	62005313