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		eitland on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the ... > and it's threat potential for nearly 2 centuries. Did you mean decades?

paulannesley on May 23, 2019 | [–]

> The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824

From the linked wikipedia article on Greenhouse effect

baq on May 23, 2019 | [–]

this article

https://medium.com/@cimuir/we-ve-been-talking-about-climate-...

has a picture of a newspaper commenting on the possibility, dated July 17th, 1912.

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