Friday, June 05, 2020

Known Since 1856

Women have been discounted. That caused some women to write with a nom-de-plume that suggested the author was a man. In some venues women could not lecture; scientific societies are examples.

In 1856 Eunice Foote could not offer her discovery that CO2 exposed to sunlight warmed the surrounding air and the receptacle that contained it: a man offered her paper. The data was ignored. So begins a video description of Eunice Foote and two men who noticed early changes to climate.

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