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In 1854, John Snow (no, not the Game of Thrones character), a physician investigating cholera outbreaks in Victorian-era London, went door-to-door throughout the streets of Soho neighborhood asking local residents where their drinking water came from. He discovered that cholera was much more common in areas where residents drank unfiltered water that had been pumped from the river Thames. In 1858, a record-breaking heat wave caused the water level of the Thames to drop, and it became clear from …

In 1859, a 39 year-old Irish physicist named John Tyndell was ecstatic to publish the results of his experiments to major European journals. He had proven that carbon dioxide absorbs more heat from the infrared radiation of sunlight than other gasses such as nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. He was finally able to publish his results in 1861, but made no mention of the implications of carbon dioxide’s heat-absorbing ability for the Earth’s climate in his papers.Despite the recognition that Tyndell …

One of the biggest misconceptions out there about climate change is that “it won’t hurt me, my friends, or my family,” at least not in this lifetime, so there is little reason to care, especially on top of all of the other problems you have to worry about in your life on a daily basis. The Yale Climate Opinion Maps of 2018 show that almost half of Americans believe that climate change is not harming anyone in the United Sates and that it will not harm them personally. 39% of citizens don't worry …