Eunice Newton Foote Climate Change Scientist Postcard

Three years before Irish physicist John Tyndall discovered the greenhouse effect, Eunice Newton Foote presented a paper in 1856 on that very subject to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her paper also demonstrated the effect of the sun’s rays on gases including carbonic acid and theorising that such interactions taking place in the atmosphere has a significant impact on Earth’s climate. Eunice Newton Foote was present at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. She is the fifth name on the list of signers and her husband, Elijah Foote, signed too.