Eunice Newton Foote

Eunice Newton Foote was the scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect and an activist. Her experiment predicted the findings of the Earth’s greenhouse effect. She was the first person to publicly say that the Earth would get warmer if carbon dioxide levels rose. 

 Early life 
Foote went to the Troy Female Seminary School. This helped her find a love for science. This would inspire her in her later years of becoming a scientist.  

 Career 
Foote became the first person to notice the ability of carbon dioxide and water vapor on heat. She connected the two to climate change.  Her work was shown to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1856. She did not present her work. A man named Joseph Henry did. It is unclear why.  A summary of her work was published in the 1857 volume of Annual Scientific Discovery by David A. Wells. Foote also made it into a German publication. She got a good review of her findings from Scientific American.  Also, she had a short film made about her in 2018.

Foote was also an activist and believer in women’s rights. Foote signed the document at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the country’s first gathering focused on women's rights. 

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