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Weather Fundamentals

Early Weather History

Who first discussed the link between climate change and how gases in the atmosphere absorb heat?

In 1884, American physicist and astronomer S.P. Langley (1834–1906) was the first to publish a scientific paper on how gases in the atmosphere can absorb heat, which has an effect on the Earth’s climate.



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