No ‘eureka moment’: The evolution of climate science
By AFP - Aug 02,2021 - Last updated at Aug 02,2021
PARIS What if Earth’s atmosphere was infused with extra carbon dioxide, mused amateur scientist Eunice Foote in an 1856 research paper that concluded the gas was very good at absorbing heat.
“An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature,” she wrote in the study, published in the American Journal of Science and Arts and then swiftly forgotten.
The American scientist and women’s rights activist, who only wrote one more paper, could not have known the full significance of her extraordinary statement, said Alice Bell, author of a recent book on the climate crisis “Our Biggest Experiment” that features Foote.
No Big Bang: Climate science evolving since the 1800s
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