How we got to the climate crisis – with Alice Bell
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What Is the Temperature of the Earth?
In 19 38, when guy calender was tutting all thes numbers up, just as a hobby, in his garden shed er in worthing. He worked out that there were really strong records for the earth had warmed by about a third of a degree celsius. That number i started with, that one point zero, two degrees celsius. And we need to go back to the 18 fifties again, and a woman called eunic newtone, who lived in new york state at the time. In 18 56 she was the first person to warn that an atmosphere full of carbon dioxide could get very hot. They thought she was just a middle class woman's activism
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