Why is Jean Baptiste Fourier's name associated with Global Warming?

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Pople have long suspected that human activity could change the local climate.
The basic principles of global warming were first noted in 1827, by the French scientist Jean Baptiste Fourier. He observed that certain gases trapped heat in the atmosphere, and he called them green house gases. According to him the Earth's atmosphere act like the glass walls in a greenhouse, which let the sun;s rays in, and prevent warmth from escaping. Some gases like carbon dioxide act as a barrier to the heat getting back into space. So, an increase in the levels of carbon dioxide would result in an increase in the temperature of the Earth. Fourier's work was further developed by Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist who was the first to claim in 1896, that burning of fossil fuels may eventually result in enhanced global warming. He and Thomas Chamberlin calculated that human activities could warm the earth by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

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