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NZ’s earliest climate change debate: the 150-year-old feud over glacial retreat

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NZ’s earliest climate change debate: the 150-year-old feud over glacial retreatHaast’s 1866 watercolour painting of the Lyell Glacier. Alexander Turnbull Library (A-149-003), CC BY-NC-ND

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

My new research sheds light on the heated debate among New Zealand scientists during the 1860s and 1870s over the...

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