Did Eunice Foote discover the 'greenhouse effect'?
The story of the American Eunice Foote and the discovery of the greenhouse effect has become a contested issue in the history of climate...
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Roland Jackson
Aug 26, 20204 min read
Eunice Foote and the dawn of climate science
The American Eunice Foote is finally getting the recognition she deserves. In 1856 she showed, using sunlight, that gases including...
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Roland Jackson
Dec 22, 20199 min read
The saga of Eunice Foote and John Tyndall
Who knew what about Eunice Foote’s 1856 discovery of the absorption of heat by carbon dioxide and water vapour? UPDATE 13 February 2019:...
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Roland Jackson
May 17, 20194 min read
Who discovered the greenhouse effect?
160 years ago, on 18 May 1859, the Irish physicist John Tyndall wrote in his journal ‘the subject is completely in my hands’. This is no...
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