#298 | A Brief History of Climate Change

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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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