A 19th-century glimpse of nature and a changing climate

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By Uri FriedmanDec 19, 2015, 8:00 am149 pts
This story was originally published by The Atlantic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first time John Ruskin noticed the gray clouds of the “plague-wind” was in 1871, decades into the industrial era. Walking home from work at the University of Oxford one spring day, the…

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