Alice Bell is a researcher, campaigner and writer based in London, specialising in the politics of science, technology, environment and health. She was a co-director at the climate change charity Possible for several years, working on a range of projects from community tree-planting events to solar-powered railways. She has a PhD in science communication from Imperial College, where she also held a lectureship in science communication and launched an interdisciplinary course on climate change. Alice has also worked at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, City Journalism School, the Science Museum and as a freelance writer and editor. She has written for a host of publications including The Times, The Observer and New Humanist, researched the 1970s radical science movement for Mosaic magazine, co-founded the Guardian’s science policy blog, and edited the 'magazine for the future', How We Get to Next.

• Introduction: Experiments1: A Steam-Powered Greenhouse2: Discovering Our Hothouse Earth3: From Whale to Shale4: The Weather Watchers5: Electric Avenues6: Tree Huggers7: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Big Oil8: Big Science9: A Carousel of Progress10: Growing Concern11: Crisis Point12: Already Happening NowConclusion: End Point?Key SourcesAcknowledgementsIndex

Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment reads like a “chocolate box of a book”—regaling readers with a curated history of the people, science, politics, and technology that have intersected with the current climate crisis. She deftly weaves subtle and lesser-known details about the brilliant (and sometimes eccentric) individuals who have worked out how to measure and describe what we, as a species, have wrought upon Earth.

Alice Bell is a researcher, campaigner and writer based in London, specialising in the politics of science, technology, environment and health. She was a co-director at the climate change charity Possible for several years, working on a range of projects from community tree-planting events to solar-powered railways. She has a PhD in science communication from Imperial College, where she also held a lectureship in science communication and launched an interdisciplinary course on climate change. Alice has also worked at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, City Journalism School, the Science Museum and as a freelance writer and editor. She has written for a host of publications including The Times, The Observer and New Humanist, researched the 1970s radical science movement for Mosaic magazine, co-founded the Guardian’s science policy blog, and edited the 'magazine for the future', How We Get to Next.

• Introduction: Experiments1: A Steam-Powered Greenhouse2: Discovering Our Hothouse Earth3: From Whale to Shale4: The Weather Watchers5: Electric Avenues6: Tree Huggers7: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Big Oil8: Big Science9: A Carousel of Progress10: Growing Concern11: Crisis Point12: Already Happening NowConclusion: End Point?Key SourcesAcknowledgementsIndex

Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment reads like a “chocolate box of a book”—regaling readers with a curated history of the people, science, politics, and technology that have intersected with the current climate crisis. She deftly weaves subtle and lesser-known details about the brilliant (and sometimes eccentric) individuals who have worked out how to measure and describe what we, as a species, have wrought upon Earth.

Alice Bell is a researcher, campaigner and writer based in London, specialising in the politics of science, technology, environment and health. She was a co-director at the climate change charity Possible for several years, working on a range of projects from community tree-planting events to solar-powered railways. She has a PhD in science communication from Imperial College, where she also held a lectureship in science communication and launched an interdisciplinary course on climate change. Alice has also worked at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, City Journalism School, the Science Museum and as a freelance writer and editor. She has written for a host of publications including The Times, The Observer and New Humanist, researched the 1970s radical science movement for Mosaic magazine, co-founded the Guardian’s science policy blog, and edited the 'magazine for the future', How We Get to Next.

• Introduction: Experiments1: A Steam-Powered Greenhouse2: Discovering Our Hothouse Earth3: From Whale to Shale4: The Weather Watchers5: Electric Avenues6: Tree Huggers7: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Big Oil8: Big Science9: A Carousel of Progress10: Growing Concern11: Crisis Point12: Already Happening NowConclusion: End Point?Key SourcesAcknowledgementsIndex

Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment reads like a “chocolate box of a book”—regaling readers with a curated history of the people, science, politics, and technology that have intersected with the current climate crisis. She deftly weaves subtle and lesser-known details about the brilliant (and sometimes eccentric) individuals who have worked out how to measure and describe what we, as a species, have wrought upon Earth.