Weight of the world – the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming

Science Weekly brings you episode one of a new mini-series from
Full Story. Pioneering Australian scientists Graeme Pearman, Lesley
Hughes and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg saw the climate crisis coming.
Pearman predicted the increase of carbon dioxide levels, Hughes
foresaw the alarming number of species extinctions and
Hoegh-Guldberg forecast the mass coral bleaching events we’re
seeing today. All three went on to become some of the country’s
most respected experts in their fields, travelling the globe,
briefing leaders, and assuming the world would take action having
heard their alarming findings. In part one of this three-part
series, these climate scientists reveal the moment they realised
the planet was heading for catastrophe. What did they do when they
found out? How did they think the world would respond? And how do
they feel today, looking back on that moment of cognisance?. Help
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