Guy Stewart Callendar

Guy Stewart Callendar (February 1898 - October 1964) was an English steam engineer and inventor. His main contribution to knowledge was propounding the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature. This eventually became known as the Callendar effect. Callendar thought this warming would be beneficial, delaying a "return of the deadly glaciers." ^[1]

Callendar expanded on the work of several 19th century scientists, including Svante Arrhenius and Nils Gustaf Ekholm. Callendar published 10 major scientific articles, and 25 shorter ones, between 1938 and 1964 on global warming, infra-red radiation and anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Others, such as the Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass, expanded upon Callendar's work in the 1950s and 1960s.

Callendar was the son of Hugh Longbourne Callendar, an English physicist who studied thermodynamics.

See also

• History of climate change science

References

1. ^ Bowen, Mark (2006) Thin Ice, p. 96. New York, Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6443-8

Bibliography

• Fleming, J.R. (2007) The Callendar Effect: the life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964) Amer Meteor Soc., Boston. ISBN 978-1-878220-76-9
• Fleming, J.R. (1998) Historical Perspectives on Climate Change Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-507870-5

External links

• Greenhouse Speculations: Arrhenius and Callendar by Spencer Weart
• G.S. Callendar Archive, University of East Anglia