Climate changes

Sue Nethercott
5 min readNov 7, 2023

When did you first realise that climate changes?

The Fall of Phaeton Statue. Marble, c. 1700–1711 by Dominique Lefebvre
The Fall of Phaeton Statue by Dominique Lefebvre. Source: Wikipedia

So far as we know, the first person to realise that climate changes was Shen Kuo in 1088. Since then, we have learned a great deal about how the climate changes naturally, and why.

How we got here

Then came agricultural revolutions, starting with the Neolithic Revolution around 11,700 years ago after the last Ice Age and…

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Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.