Happy birthday, Papa Climate Change!

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By Amelia UrryFeb 19, 2015, 5:53 pm565 ptsHot
Today, February 19th, is a very special day. Today is the birthday of Svante Arrhenius. Who, you ask? Oh, only the intellectual parent of the greenhouse gas theory, though he called it the “hot-house theory” — the idea that CO2 produced by industrial coal-burning could hang around in the atmosphere…

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