{"id":214615,"date":"2022-02-21T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-mild-mannered-biker-triggered-a-huge-debate-over-humans-role-in-climate-change-in-the-early-20th-century"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:15:36","slug":"a-mild-mannered-biker-triggered-a-huge-debate-over-humans-role-in-climate-change-in-the-early-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-mild-mannered-biker-triggered-a-huge-debate-over-humans-role-in-climate-change-in-the-early-20th-century","title":{"rendered":"A mild-mannered biker triggered a huge debate over humans&#8217; role in climate change &#8211; in the early 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Stewart Callendar connected carbon dioxide concentrations with rising temperatures. GS Callendar Archive, University of East Anglia In 1938, a British engineer and amateur meteorologist made a discovery that set off a fierce debate about climate change. Scientists had known for decades that carbon dioxide could trap heat and warm the planet. But Guy Callendar was the first to connect human activities to global warming . He showed that land temperatures had increased over the previous half-century, and he theorized that people were unwittingly raising Earth&#8217;s temperature by burning fossil fuels in furnaces, factories and even his beloved motorcycles . When Callendar published his findings , it set off a firestorm. The scientific establishment saw him as an outsider and a bit of a meddling gentleman scientist. But, he was right. His theory became widely known as &#8220;the Callendar Effect.&#8221; Today, it&#8217;s known as global warming. Callendar defended his theory until his death in 1964, increasingly bewildered that the science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1938, a British engineer and amateur meteorologist made a discovery that set off a fierce debate about climate change. Scientists had known for decades that carbon dioxide could trap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[200,215,216,273],"class_list":["post-214615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-world-war-ii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}