Our Biggest Experiment - A History of the Climate Crisis - Alice Bell
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Maybe it’s the weirdness of the weather. Maybe it’s another way to pour scorn on politicians. Maybe the steady stream of headlines about fires, floods and droughts is finally starting to get to us. Whatever it is, for more and more of us, climate change is shifting from a shadowy fear in the backs of our minds to something we feel we need to get a handle on. Climate change may be a horror story, but, as Our Biggest Experiment shows, the tale of how we discovered it isn’t.
The discovery of climate change didn’t feature a ‘Eureka!’ moment - it was a slow and gradual realization as each new generation pieced together a little more information. Our exploration of the Earth’s fluctuating environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavor. It also began much earlier than we might think.This book takes us back to climate change science’s earliest steps in the 18th and 19th centuries, through the point when concern started to rise in the 1950s and right up to today, where the ‘debate’ is over and the world is finally starting to face up to the reality that things are going to get a lot hotter, a lot drier (in some places) and a lot wetter (in others), with catastrophic consequences for most of Earth’s biomes.
Our Biggest Experiment recounts how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity could be a savior, and how renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery. Alice Bell cuts through the jargon and jumble of numbers to show how we’re getting to grips with what is now the defining issue of our time. The message she relays is ultimately hopeful; harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has driven the history of climate change research can mean a more sustainable and bearable future for humanity.
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This post has 21 comments with rating of 4/5
July 26th, 2021
Fake News. If you look at the records, 1930 was the warmest year and it’s been cooling since the 50’s, the big floods in 1910 dwarfed the floods in Europe this year and the 1911 heat wave in the North East was wayyyyy hotter than this years.
The only way to solve the Climate Crisis is ignore the fake science. I manage a greenhouse/farm and we run our CO2 at 1400 ppm, same with out neighbors and competitors, plants love CO2!!
July 26th, 2021
Pseudo liberalism
July 26th, 2021
@leadingnorth I’m sure the forest of Antarctica will be very lush.
July 26th, 2021
I wonder if leadingnorth understands that CO2 is toxic to animals. I don’t think he does.
July 26th, 2021
@redstar1970 oh please, leadingnorth doesn’t understand that eating lead isn’t a good idea.
Again, great to know that climate change deniers can’t tell the difference between weather and climate, and remain completely oblivious to the fact we have evidence in the form of core samples supporting that this rate of climate change isn’t natural.
July 26th, 2021
the entire western US is baking under historical high temps. still people deny climate change. like they did for covid and then vaccines. the dumbest half of humanity is going to drown us all.
July 26th, 2021
The subject sure brings them out of the woodwork quickly. iaudiophile, you have it exactly right, the low-IQ-ers have discovered that even they can use the internet now that it’s simple, and they can reinforce each others’ wacko theories and even make up their own. It takes zero brain power to shout “fake news” at whatever is inconvenient for one to accept, or hard to understand, or just from someone you don’t like. This, and collecting guns, has given the confidence to think that they can take over and run the world better than people who actually care about things, are able to think and understand, and are willing to put out effort to work together to solve real problems (rather than just declare them as fake and start calling people derogatory names. Sad that a book forum is so infested with reactionary troglodytes, but they seem to have found a gathering place. Sad that without even reading/listening they can form their decision based on information they’ve gotten from other reactionary mentally impaired ignorants, but obviously that’s the norm now.
July 26th, 2021
Oh to be a Canadian farmer.
July 26th, 2021
I remember the news and “scientists” from the 90s saying that in 10-15 years some major cities will be underwater unless we do something NOW. I saw the same things in the 2000ins and the same in 2010s. These claims didnt even start in the 90. Id be willing to believe them again if they didnt sound like doomsday prophets when armagedon day keeps getting postponed.
July 26th, 2021
Climate change fixed by taxing richer nations!
…while letting “poorer” and “developing” nations to keep polluting more CO2 than the US!!!
Progressivism is a mental disorder!
July 27th, 2021
Jack_Milad
July 26th, 2021
@redstar1970 oh please, leadingnorth doesn’t understand that eating lead isn’t a good idea.
It’s LED ya dimwitted twat
July 27th, 2021
@ bosk: tell me where anyone actually advocates “fixing global warming with taxation”.
Not some think tank funded by the Koch brothers or redneck politician a (also funded by big oil) mischaracterising them.
Anyway, your approach is to refuse to start bailing the lifeboat because some people are slacking.
July 27th, 2021
@eyeballs do yourself a favour. Look at the periodic table, find the element with the atomic number 82 (Pb), then come back here and admit you were wrong.
July 27th, 2021
@eyeballs
You’re not serious… are you?
Imagine being this dumb.
July 27th, 2021
And I see Leadingnorth is back.
I thought it was made clear to you that white supremacists and paedophiles aren’t welcome.
July 27th, 2021
I prefer a green world with happy people, up with CO2!!
July 27th, 2021
@Jack_Milad what do those core samples mean when scientist can observe the fact that there is a climate shift happening on other planets in our solar system at the same time? Surely you’re smart enough to at least pause for a second and think that, maybe, just maybe those core samples don’t mean exactly what we think they mean.
July 27th, 2021
@wheresmycannon I know what you’re talking about and it’s been debunked. But I want to see you dig yourself deeper into this line of thinking. So a couple of questions:
Do you think carbon in the atmosphere has any relation to climate change?
Which planets are currently undergoing rapid observable climate change? What’s your explanation as to why?
July 28th, 2021
If people really cared about the “Climate Crisis” then build nuclear reactors their are many options in this area, like Thorium, SMR’s and Molten salt. Wind power kills millions of birds, solar is costly in land area used and the huge amount of toxic waste from the old panels.
If not nuclear power then your just a economic terrorist, and china thanks you for their cheap power.
July 28th, 2021
@phoenix2150 in the past 70 years, the UK’s nuclear power plants have produced enough waste material to warrant the building of a facility which spans 10 square miles. This waste is going to remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.
That’s with nuclear power providing SOME of the country’s power for 70 years. Can you imagine how much waste material would be produced if nuclear was the primary or sole source of power for a century?
You can’t argue against solar because of its waste whilst arguing in favour of nuclear power. That’s just nonsensical.
July 31st, 2021
This is not a science book, but is a worthwhile addition to popular treatments of the subject with some fun historical anecdotes and background data.
I don’t need convincing as I have lived through nearly ALL of the warming(the ’70s were cooler than the 20th C avg) and I have lived in a temperate climate that has seen +2°C warming.
I found this volume surprisingly good. Highly recommended.
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