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

In 1899 Ekholm pointed out that, at present rates, coal burning might eventually double the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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

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Category:Swedish scientists
Category:Meteorologists
Category:19th-century Swedish people
Category:1848 births
Category:1923 deaths