Scientist from 11th century ‘was first to recognise climate change impact’

Shen Kuo noticed bamboo plants growing in conditions he thought impossible

An 11th-century polymath was the first person to recognise the impact of climate change, a scientist has suggested.

Shen Kuo was a scientist from the Northern Song Dynasty in the Zhejiang province of northern China.

Kuo wrote about how a landslide exposed a cavity in a riverbank in the Shaanxi province in 1088.