colleague Svante Arrhenius, this would "undoubtedly cause a very obvious rise of the mean temperature of the Earth." By controlling the production and consumption of CO2, he thought humans would be able to "regulate the future climate of the Earth and consequently prevent the arrival of a new ice age (Fleming 1998). An English version published in 1901 in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society resulted in wide dissemination of Ekholm's ideas, including the use of the term "greenhouse" to describe the effect of carbon dioxide). Publications Notes References Ångström, Anders: "Ekholm, Nils Gustaf", in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 12 (1949), p. 720–725. "SMHI och dess föregångare i årtal fr o m 1873", a timeline of the history of SMHI and its predecessor institutions External links Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon 1848 births 1923 deaths People from Smedjebacken Municipality Swedish explorers Explorers of the Arctic Swedish meteorologists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences