Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
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* Climate Science

Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. The events commemorating
Darwin's birthday anniversary last Sunday, together with the recent
conclusion of an important court case concerning the teaching of
Intelligent Design (ID) in public schools prompts me to some musing
concerning the relation of the Evolution/ID dialog to similar issues
arising in connection with anthropogenic global warming. The age of the
two theories is similar as well: Darwin introduced his theory in 1859,
whereas Fourier initiated the study of the effect of atmospheres on
climate with his 1821 treatise, stimulating the chain of developments
leading to Arrhenius' enunciation in 1896 of the theory that human
influences on the atmosphere's CO2 content could change the climate.


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Martin