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Videos

A Day in the Life of a Wigan Coal Miner 1911, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D581TDHFpmE

A History of Earth’s Climate, SciShow, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_2WXyORGA

Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil, 2007 www.abc.net.au/science/crude/

Studying Ice Cores in Antartica, 2012, Natural History Museum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjTsj-fi-p0&feature=youtu.be

The History of Oil, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4sykoUWZ8g

 

 

Podcasts, radio programs, transcripts

‘Rise of the Factories’, BBC History Extra podcast 15 Nov 2013

‘Scientists to Drill Record-breaking Ice Core’, Radio National Breakfast, 11 Jun 2014, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/scientists-to-drill-record-breaking-ice-core/5514328

‘Joe Farman’, My Century, BBC World Service, transcript, broadcast 6 Jul 1999, www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/mycentury/transcript/wk27d2.shtml

 

Personal communication

 

Special thanks to these experts who were kind enough to respond to my emails:

 

Malcolm W Wallace, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

Bruce A Bauer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

William F Ruddiman, University of Virginia

Amanda McKenzie, Climate Council

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Eve Fisher, Surf Coast Shire

Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography