Global warming

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The forerunner to Progress in Physical Geography was Progress in Geography and was first published in 1969. In 1976, an article on contemporary problems in research on air pollution made the first reference in this journal to ’global warming’, drawing attention to the predominance of fossil fuel burning as primary cause and rising sea levels as primary impact (Wall, 1976). Three years later in the same journal Bach (1979) provided an excellent account of the understanding of the problem at the end of the 1970s, and more recently Jones and Henderson-Sellers (1990) provided a selective history of ideas surrounding the