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  • The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart - The authoritative history of how scientists came to understand climate change - now updated to include the rediscovery of Eunice Newton Foote's foundational 1856 work.
  • Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich - A meticulously reported account of how the world came to understand - and then failed to act on - the science of climate change that Foote's experiment first made visible.
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