Global Warming: The Decade We Lost Earth

The story of how one man cost us a world with less than 2°C of warming in 1989. To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://www.brilliant.org/simonclark. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription.

This is a follow-up video to Global Warming: An Inconvenient History, going into much more detail of events from 1979 to 1989. In particular this is the story of the "villain" of climate change, a man you've likely never heard of before. But is that a fair description? You be the judge.

Previous video on the Inconvenient History of Global Warming:    • Global Warming: An Inconvenient History  

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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com
Some stock footage courtesy of Getty.
Directed and edited by Luke Negus.

This video essay in the style of Jon Bois and BobbyBroccoli is about the history of climate change, and how John Sununu is the villain of the story, preventing a binding agreement on carbon emissions at the Noordwijk conference of 1989. Who is to blame for climate change? Who caused global warming? Why was John Sununu so important? These questions and more are answered in this video about the history of science and global warming.

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