Question - When was it first proposed by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrenhenius that human emissions of Greenhouse Gases

When was it first proposed by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrenhenius that human emissions of Greenhouse Gases could potentially impact the climate by causing Global Warming?

a) 1850

b) 1896

c) 1946

d) 1976

Answer:

b) 1896

In 1896, a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius suggested that the coal-fired Industrial Revolution was adding carbon dioxide gas to the atmosphere and that the gas might raise the temperature of the earth.