Eunice Newton Foote: The forgotten scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856

Today we are all too familiar with the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but almost 170 years ago, an American woman gave us a distant early warning that went unnoticed. Eunice Newton Foote was a women's rights activist and amateur scientist, overlooked for centuries. — Read the rest
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