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
Eunice Foote described the greenhouse gas effects of carbon dioxide in 1856.Carlyn Iverson/NOAA Climate.govLong 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....