The forgotten climate-science pioneer
An ingenious experiment published in an 1856 paper by polymath Eunice Foote was the first to suggest that changes in the atmosphere’s composition could directly affect the climate. Foote’s findings predated John Tyndall’s similar but better-known work by three years, but we don’t know for sure whether Tyndall was aware of them, and her results slipped into obscurity. “I would like to see her known as the mother of global warming and climate change [science],” says historian John Perlin.
Chemistry World | 8 min readReference: Foote’s 1856 American Journal of Science and Arts paper
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