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

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....

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