Drawing of Eunice Newton Foote by Carlyn Iverson. Credit: NOAA Climate.gov. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century.

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1. Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 20:29:14 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

   But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

   Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange