Fascinating little historical tidbit on climate, from the 1953 New York Times: http://www.millenniumbulkeiswa.gov/comments/MBTL-EIS-0003176-60867.pdf …pic.twitter.com/tklS10Sibz
Wasn't this already understood (if not accurately quantified) by the late 1800s / early 1900s?
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Not really. This is a nice account of some of the confusions of the time: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/a-saturated-gassy-argument … http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/a-saturated-gassy-argument-part-ii … The references go into more detail.
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I've also seen histories that emphasize different aspects, but the broad takeaway is similar - we understood some of the core physics in the 1800s (Fourier, Tyndall, Arrhenius), but also missed some of the core physics until the 1950s and 1960s.
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