[eitland]

> and it's threat potential for nearly 2 centuries.

Did you mean decades?

[paulannesley]

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

From the linked wikipedia article on Greenhouse effect

[baq]

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.