Source: The News-Herald
URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/63924741/
Date: 23/10/1902
Event: Arrhenius: "the earth will be baked in a temperature close to the boiing point"
Credit: The News-Herald, h/t Tony Heller
THE NEWS-HERALD - OCT 23, 1902
MORGANTON, N.C., OCTOBER 23, 1902
Hint to Coal Consumers
A Swedish professor, Svend Arrhenius, has evolved a new theory of the extinction of the human race. He holds that the combustion of coal by civilized man is gradually warming the atmosphere so that in the course of a few cycles of 10,000 years the earth will be baked in a temperature close to the boiling point. He bases his theory on the accumulation of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, which acts as a glass in concentrating and refracting the heat of the sun.