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The 19th-century tumult over climate change – and why it matters today

  • Written by Deborah Coen, Professor of History and Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
Weather towers like this one in a park in Vienna were a popular way for the 19th-century public to track the influence of weather on their lives.Source: Wikimedia

Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made...

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