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Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was
first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are usually
about the future, but Our Biggest Experiment turns instead asks how
did we get into this mess, and how and when did we work out it was
happening? Join Alice Bell on a rip-roaring ride through the
characters, ideas, technologies and experiments that shaped the
climate crisis we now find ourselves in.
From an emerging idea of 'greenhouse gases' in the 19th century
and, via scientific expeditions across oceans and ice caps and into
space, the coining of the term 'global warming' in the 1970s, Bell
explores how we began to realise that not only could human
pollution dangerously warm the climate, but that it was already
doing so. Drop by the first climate talks, weather forecasts and
early experiments. Watch excitement over solar and wind power start
in the 1870s, only to be forgotten before being rediscovered a
century later. See the monster of big oil slain by a plucky
investigative journalist back in the 1910s, only tore-emerge more
powerful than ever. However, this isn't a simple story with
exploitative fossil-fuel baddies on one side and the goodies of
renewable energy, environmentalism and climate science on the
other. It's more complex than that.
As citizens of the 21st century, we've been left an almighty mess,
but as this ultimately hopeful book argues, we've also inherited
the tools for our survival.
Автор : Bell Alice
Год : 2022
