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Ciaran Doolin, PhD candidate, School of Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

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

Haast’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 possibility of ancient climate change, prompted by geological signs that glaciers in the Southern Alps had once been much larger.

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