For thousands of years, humans have had ideas about mankind's potential impact on the climate.

In this episode, we look at how these ideas have changed, the men and women who have contributed to them, and ask ourselves why it has taken so long to start paying attention.

Ancient ideas about mankind's impact on the climate
The North American "rain follows the plough" theory
Joseph Fourier & The Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote's discovery about CO2
The theory that burning coal might be causing temperatures to rise
Svante Arrhenius & global heating
Guy Callendar, the amateur meteorologist
The fear of a return to the Ice Age
The Great Smog of 1952 in London
Charles David Keeling attributes human activity to climate change
Were rising CO2 levels good or bad?
The establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Modern climate change theories
The role of the oil & gas industry
Climate change deniers in US politics

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/history-climate-change

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