How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming | JSTOR Daily

“But the road to understanding climate change stretches back to the tweed-clad middle years of the 19th century—when Victorian-era scientists conducted the first experiments proving that runaway CO2 could, one day, cook the planet.”

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Addendum

  1. Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer by Amara Huddleston/July 2019/Climate.gov

  2. The Tempestry Project

    “A Tempestry is a wallhanging, or temperature tapestry, that represents the daily high temperature for a given year and location, with January at the bottom and December at the top – think of it like a bar graph.”

Three Tempestries for Utqiagvik, AK (L-R: 1925, 2010, 2016) and two Tempestries for Death Valley, CA (L-R: 1950 and 2016). Via Wikipedia Commons by Justin Connelly /  Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License

Three Tempestries for Utqiagvik, AK (L-R: 1925, 2010, 2016) and two Tempestries for Death Valley, CA (L-R: 1950 and 2016). Via Wikipedia Commons by Justin Connelly / Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License

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