The themes of climate change and its implications have, in recent years, become major points of discussion amongst private citizens and public officials alike. Filmmakers, actors, and corporations have all taken massive steps to bring awareness to the reality of increasing global temperatures – one need only look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary film Before The Flood or the collaboration between American Express and Parley for The Oceans to put into perspective exactly how pressing of an issue climate change is.
Logically, many will argue that the earth and its ecosystem, as fragile as it may be, follows cyclical patterns of warming and cooling. This may be true, however, is there a possibility that the collective human carbon footprint has increased to the point where an alteration to the “norm” is irreversible subsequently shifting the boundaries and soft limits of cyclical change?
In this weeks installment during our hiatus period, the featured article, written by Nathaniel Rich for The New York Times Magazine (with photographs and video by George Steinmetz), is the first part of a series providing a history of climate change.
How long have we known?
The International Review 