The unsung 19th-century pioneer, Eunice Foote, conducted early experiments on the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide. These studies predated and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of climate change.
Here at the end of the hottest year since industrialization, there were worries the conference, presided over by the head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, would amount to window-dressing while thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists worked to preserve a perilous status quo.
Renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen is concerned the danger is even greater than it appears.
What does it say about COP28 that shortly before it began, the United Nations Environment Programme released a report tellingly titled "Broken Record," and another major report found 41 of 42 key climate indicators to be off track?
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