Acknowledging Hanrahan’s contribution to climate change science
It’s a little known fact that the first climate change scientist was an Australian man by the name of Hanrahan. Hanrahan lived a century ago and hailed from regional New South Wales. As a farmer, Hanrahan was acutely aware of the impact the changing climate wrought on his livelihood and was well placed to raise his concerns. If makes little difference if the motivation for his research was to save the world (which it was not) or to...
