We are super excited to bring this story to y'all! In this episode we are discussing the story of Eunice Newton Foote, a true scientist (not an amateur scientist) who was a pioneer of Climate Change research. Her discovery of the Greenhouse effect that occurs with the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere was groundbreaking, but was almost left unnoticed. She found that higher levels of atmospheric CO2 trapped more heat from radiation. Even though her research was published as short papers in several American and European journals, John Tyndall, who is often cited as the discoverer of climate change science, did not cite her work. Eunice Foote's work was left unnoticed until 2011, when researchers dug up her paper from the archives, discovering that her work set the foundation for climate change science today.

References

• Wikipedia, New York Times, The Times, Royal Society of Chemistry,
• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
• Foote, Eunice, (1856). Circumstances affecting the heat of the Sun’s rays: Art. XXXI, The American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd Series, v. XXII/no. LXVI, p. 382-383
• Jackson, Roland. (2019). Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and a question of priority. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 0(0), 20180066.
• Mariotti, Annarita. (2019). Celebrate a female pioneer. Nature Correspondence, v.571, p.174.
• Sorenson, R.P., (2011). Eunice Foote’s pioneering research on CO2 and climate warming: Search and Discovery Article # 70092 (2011), 5
• Tyndall, John, (1859). Note on the transmission of heat through gaseous bodies: Proceedings Royal Society of London, v. 10, p. 37-39