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The discovery that Earth is warming at a dangerous rate is not new. Nor has it been uncertain that humans are the driving force behind it. Scientists have been studying the effect that greenhouse gases are having on our climate for 200 years.
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Heritage on the EdgeDiscover how people around the world are using technology to protect their cultural sites against climate change.
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History of Climate Science ResearchTimeline of climate science dating back to the discovery of carbon dioxide in 1640
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How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global WarmingToday’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.
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