19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change

Odd lights, hazes and fires

Philip James de Loutherbourg/Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of climate change introduced by the era's rapid industrialization.

One early witness to the changing hues of the countryside's once clear skies and untouched landscape was …