Three pioneers who predicted climate change | BBC Ideas

We've known about climate change and the warming impact of CO2 for a very long time... Here are three key figures in the history of climate change science - Eunice Newton Foote, Guy Stewart Callendar and Charles Keeling. Not all of them them got the recognition they deserved at the time.
Animation by Peter Caires. Made in partnership with The Open University.

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