About the Book: Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis
The history of climate change research - how the world became addicted to
fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may be our saviour, and how
renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery.
It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and womens rights campaigner
living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere
heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This
was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention.
Our Biggest Experiment tells Footes