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Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
James Rodger FlemingSTS Program, Colby College
Some highlights
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HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?
HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
Models
• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
Models
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Svante Arrhenius
Philosophical Magazine, 1896
Model of CO2 controlling ice ages and interglacials.
Geometric decline in CO2 causes a linear decrease in temperature.
Industrial emissions not yet of concern to him.
His climate model is often cited, but it is not continuous with modern results or concerns.
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Eclipse of the CO2 theory of climate change. 1900-1950
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Guy Stewart Callendar
The Callendar Effect -- Climatic change brought about by anthropogenic increases in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, primarily through the processes of combustion. AGW in 1938!
Rising temperaturesRising fossil fuel consumptionRising CO2 concentrations Detailed understanding of IR
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Rising temperatures ca. 1858-1939
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Rising CO2 Levels (1958)
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IR Spectrum (1941)
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HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?
HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
• Models
Technology
• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
• Models
Technology
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Bumper V-2 Cape Canaveral24 July 1950
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HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?
HOW ARE PRIVILEGED POSITIONS
ESTABLISHED?• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
• Models
• Technology
Consensus
• Authority / Prestige
• Data
• Experiment / Theory
• Models
• Technology
Consensus
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Roger Revelle
Report of The Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Science Advisory Committee, 1965 – Appendix Y.
By the year 2000 there will be about 25% more CO2 in our atmosphere than at present. This will modify the heat balance of the atmosphere to such an extent that marked changes in climate, not controllable through local or even national efforts, could occur.
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Jule Charney
National Academy of Sciences,Carbon Dioxide and Climate:
A Scientific Assessment (1979)
The consensus has been that increasing carbon dioxide will
lead to a warmer earth with a different distribution of
climatic regimes.
Doubling CO2 in models results in 1.5 to 4.5 C warming.
Positive feedbacks will increase the warming.
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Establishing the IPCC
1979 First World Climate Conference, WMO.
1985 Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts (UNEP, WMO, ICSU).
1988 IPCC established by WMO and UNEP.
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Original IPCC Charge (1988)
1. Science of climate and climatic change
2. Social and economic impacts
3. Possible response strategies
4. International legal instruments
5. International convention on climate
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If our understanding of climate is based on authority, prestige, data, experiments, theory, modeling, technology, and consensus…
If our understanding of climate is based on authority, prestige, data, experiments, theory, modeling, technology, and consensus…
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WHAT DO WE KNOW?
WHAT DO WE FEAR?
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
—Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
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WHAT ROLE FOR HISTORY?
WHAT ROLE FOR HISTORY?
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Students of climate dynamics would be well-served to study science dynamics (history).
History matters – it shapes identity and behavior; it is not just a celebratory record of inevitable progress.
Our species emerged during an ice age.
All of history has occurred in an interglacial era.
In facing unprecedented challenges, it is good to seek historical precedents.