Eunice Foote
2023-03-02 20:41:05.564841+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
A few years and a half off, but I found this interesting: Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer
Foote’s experiments in the 1850s demonstrated the ability of atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide to affect solar heating, foreshadowing John Tyndall’s later experiments that described the workings of Earth’s greenhouse effect. Despite her remarkable insight into the influence that higher carbon dioxide levels in the past would have had on Earth’s temperature, Foote went unnoticed in the history of climate science until recently.