Just recevied an interesting CfP for a conference in Amsterdam in April: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies

https://asca.uva.nl/shared/subsites/amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research/en/events/2024/04/geopower.html?origin=puxViJXMR4qLMjgCvCIKgA&cb

#EnvironmentalHumanities #ClimateHistories

New post on Climate Histories.

"The Carbon Dioxide Number." The story of Charles D. Keeling and of the single most important environmental data set taken in the 20th century.

https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-carbon-dioxide-number

#ClimateHistories #CarbonDioxide #KeelingCurve

While researching Charles Keeling, one of the foremost scientists in atmospheric CO2 studies, I came across this NYT archive article about Roger Ravelle. It includes a rare video of a 1980 talk, where he discusses #CarbonDioxide and #Climate Risks.

He couldn't be more prophetic.

#climatechange #ClimateHistories

https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/roger-revelles-1980-discussion-of-co2-and-climate-risks/?searchResultPosition=1