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.\n \nWe celebrate Foote\u2019s 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 \u2013 and how we overcome these climate blind spots?
Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by: \nDr Alice Bell, Head of Climate and Health Policy at Wellcome and author of \u2018Our Biggest Experiment \u2013 An Epic History of the Climate Crisis\u2019 \nProfessor Regina Rodrigues, Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. \nProfessor Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College London. \nProducer: Louise Parry \nResearcher: Louise Byrne \nSeries Producer: Alex Lewis \nEditor: Richard Vadon \nSound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot\n \nEmail us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com