Nils Gustaf Ekholm

Nils Gustaf Ekholm (9 October 1848 – 5 April 1923) was a Swedish meteorologist. He led a Swedish geophysical expedition to Spitsbergen in 1882–1883.[1]

Nils Gustaf Ekholm in the 1890s.

In 1899 Ekholm pointed out that, at present rates, coal burning might eventually double the concentration of atmospheric CO2.

Ekholm was a friend of Svante Arrhenius, who first predicted that burning coal would raise the global temperature.

References
  1. The biography is based on Anders Ångström, "Ekholm, Nils Gustaf", in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 12 (1949), pp. 720–725.
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