Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

Breathtaking New York Times Article about science, politics and global warming

This is by far the best story about the scientific discovery of global warming and the subsequent politic action (or non-action) that I am aware of - its actually a bit Michael Lewis style.

The Editor's note of Jake Silverstein says it all:

This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein

Please find below the link to the narrative from Nathaniel Rich published in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

Definitively worth a read!