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Podcast: The Climate Question
Episode: How did we discover climate change?
Description: In 1856, an American woman called Eunice Newton Foote discovered that higher levels of carbon dioxide would warm the planet. But credit for discovering climate change was given to someone else who made the same discovery three years later.
We celebrate Foote’s role in early climate science by recreating her little-known experiment and asking if there are some voices that continue to be overlooked in climate science today – and how we overcome these climate blind spots?Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Dr Alice Bell, Head of Climate and Health Policy at Wellcome and author of ‘Our Bigges...