So, the new head of the US EPA doesn't think that CO2 has much of a role in global warming. \u00a0What a pity Eunice Foote isn't still around to enlighten him.<\/p>\n
It was the American scientist Eunice Foote who first discovered the\u00a0greenhouse effect in 1856. \u00a0She showed that gases in the atmosphere were affected by the Sun\u2019s radiation in different ways, and of all the gases she tested, it was CO2 that trapped the most heat. In 1859, UK physicist John Tyndall independently demonstrated the same effects, and he usually gets the credit for making the link. \u00a0 This was because he published his results, including data on how the absorption of radiant heat differed from gas to gas. \u00a0Foote was ahead of her time. \u00a0Although her work was not published, and she wasn\u2019t even allowed to present her findings to fellow scientists as no woman could do that in the USA at the time, it\u2019s reported that she also speculated about whether changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air might lead to a warming of the Earth.<\/p>\n
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