Climate Science History

An Anaphora Sonnet by Century

(An Anaphora is a poem with repeated words or phrases, often at the beginning of lines)

Climate Science History 						          Timeline/location for reference
An Anaphora Sonnet by Century				          Not to be read aloud		
by Phil Bush
      1714: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer	 	The Netherlands		

Even when Faurier reveals that air traps heat 		   1824 France
Even though Foote proves CO2 outwarms O2 		   1856 New York State
Even as Arrhenius names the greenhouse brew 		   1896 Sweden
Even then few on our planet can hear or believe it.           19th Century

Even as Callendar’s data shows 50 years’ warming            1938 147 weather stations	
Even when Meadows models the Limits to Growth          1972 Dartmouth College	
Even though ice caps begin to cover less Earth		    1999 Antarctica
Even then we don’t act as though proof is a warning.	    20th Century

Even though Al Gore’s movie gains our attention		    2006 W’s Presidency 	
Even as Earth’s hottest years start in 2014			    2014 - 2023 Planet Earth
Even when five degrees rise by 2100 is foreseen		    2019 UN Min. at current rate
Even when COP  28’s goals get a dubious mention	    2023 Dubai (All 21st Century)

      The time is out of joint. No end in sight.		           17th and 21st centuries
      Over 300 years we haven’t set it right.*		           18th to 21st centuries


*After a couplet from Hamlet:
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That I was ever born to set it right.

Spoken by Hamlet to Horatio