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Eunice Newton Foote

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Pages from 1856 paper
Pages from 1856 paper

Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to conclude that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could impact climate. Born in Connecticut, Foote was raised in New York at the center of social and political movements such as the abolition of slavery, anti-alcohol activism, and women's rights. She attended the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School, gaining a broad education in scientific theory and practice. After marrying an attorney in 1841, Foote settled in Seneca Falls, New York. She was a signatory to the Declaration of Sentiments and one of the editors of the proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. In 1856 she published a paper notable for demonstrating the absorption of heat by CO2 and water vapor and hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere would alter the climate. Foote died in 1888 and for almost a hundred years her contributions were unknown, before being rediscovered by women academics in the twentieth century. In 2022, the American Geophysical Union instituted The Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science in her honor. (Full article...)