How did the world become addicted to fossil fuels, how did we discover that electricity may be our saviour, and why is renewable energy far from a 20th-century discovery. As citizens of the twenty-first century, it can feel like history has dealt us a rather bad hand in the climate crisis. In many ways, this is true. Our ancestors have left us an almighty mess. But they left us tools for survival too, and Our Biggest Experiment tells both sides of the story. The history of climate change research.