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Irish scientist John Tyndall, one of the most distinguished physicists in modern history, provided evidence in 1861 that human-generated gases such as carbon dioxide and ethylene transmit enormous volumes of heat.
He wrote of “the astonishment with which I saw the foregoing effects” of gases capable of trapping heat then released into the earth's atmosphere, remaining there.
While Tyndall was unearthing these discoveries in the early 1860s, the Industrial Age had already taken off 100 years before.
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