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The greenhouse effect analogy
stuck and some 40 years later,
Irish scientist John Tyndall would
start to explore exactly what
kinds of gases were most likely to
play a role in absorbing sunlight.
The greenhouse effect analogy
stuck and some 40 years later,
Irish scientist John Tyndall would
start to explore exactly what
kinds of gases were most likely to
play a role in absorbing sunlight.
Tyndall’s laboratory tests
in the 1860s showed that coal
gas (containing CO2, methane
and volatile hydrocarbons)
was especially effective at
absorbing energy.
He eventually demonstrated that CO2 alone acted like a sponge in the way that it could absorb multiple wavelengths of sunlight
