Today Is...Joseph Fourier Gave First Global Warming Warning

I once read that the only creature that would survive a nuclear war is the cockroach and the hardy little critters will be around long after we have gone because they are on the shockingly short list of creatures who could survive Global Warming compiled by the IUCN Species Survival Commission who are responsible for documenting the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
Humans are sadly not on the list but we really can't say that we weren't warned.

1824 - French physicist Joseph Fourier warns of the Earth's natural 'greenhouse effect'.
1861 - Irish physicist John Tyndall shows that certain gases create the greenhouse effect.
1896 - Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius concludes that industrial-age coal burning will enhance the 'man made greenhouse effect' and raise temperatures
1900 - Swede, Knut Angstrom, discovers that even at the tiny concentrations of certain gases can produce greenhouse warming.
1938 - British engineer Guy Callendar shows that temperatures had risen over the previous century caused by CO2 concentration.
1955 - US researcher Gilbert Plass announces that CO2 concentrations could increase temperatures by 3-4C.
1957 - US oceanographer Roger Revelle and chemist Hans Suess state that 'Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment'
1958 - Charles David Keeling begins measurements of atmospheric CO2 concluding that CO2 concentrations are rising.
1965 - A US President's Advisory Committee panel warns that the greenhouse effect is 'a matter of real concern'.
1975 - US scientist Wallace Broecker publishes a scientific paper warning of the dangers of 'global warming'.
1988 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed to collate and assess evidence on climate change.
1989 - UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warns in a UN speech of CO2 in the atmosphere and calls for a global treaty on climate change.
1990 - IPCC report that temperatures have risen by 0.3-0.6C over the last century due to humanity's emissions.
1992 - At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, governments agree to 'prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'.
1995 - IPCC Report concludes that the evidence suggests 'a discernible human influence' on the Earth's climate.
1998 - UN report that the average global temperature reached 0.52C above the mean for the period 1961-90.
1998 - Publication of the 'hockey stick' graph indicating that modern-day temperature rise is unusual compared with the last 1,000 years.
2001 - IPCC report finds 'stronger evidence' that humanity's emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause global warming.
2007 - IPCC's report concludes it is more than 90% likely humanity's emissions are responsible for climate change.
2008 - Keeling project shows that CO2 concentrations have risen from 315 ppm in 1958 to 380ppm in 2008.
2011 - UN Data shows concentrations of greenhouse gases are rising faster than in previous years.
2013 - The Mauna Loa Observatory reports that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has surpassed 400ppm for the first time since measurements began.
2013 - IPCC's report says scientists are 95% certain that humans are the cause of global warming.
2020 - CO2 in the atmosphere reached record levels, hitting 417 ppm for first time in four million years.