Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
- Written by Sylvia G. Dee, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis.
The year was 1856....

