How did we discover climate change?

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 Biggest
Experiment – An Epic History of the Climate Crisis’ Professor
Regina Rodrigues, Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate
at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis,
Brazil. Professor Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at
University College London. Producer: Louise Parry Researcher:
Louise Byrne Series Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot Email us:
theclimatequestion@bbc.com