Quakers have a long-standing commitment to living sustainably, and many see themselves as ‘climate warriors’. There is also a long tradition that our actions should be based on, and tested by, our lived experience. But most of us don’t have any direct means of experiencing the causes of climate change. I hope to provide some awareness of what is involved.
This talk will describe some of the fundamental measures of climate change, and how these measurements have been carried out. It’s a story of remote places, luck and technical genius, and individual persistence and bloody-mindedness in the face of bureaucratic obstacles.