How we got to the climate crisis with Alice Bell

Published: April 30, 2022, 5 a.m.

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Our exploration of the Earth\\u2019s fluctuating environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavour, which began much earlier than you might think.

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This month we hear from Alice Bell as she explores climate change science\\u2019s earliest steps in the 18th and 19th centuries, through the point when concern started to rise in the 1950s, right up to the modern day. You can learn more in Alice\\u2019s latest book 'Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis\\u2019.

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This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 22 July 2021.

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