Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859. But 3yrs earlier Eunice Foote theorized heat trapping gases in the atmosphere warm the #climate. Tyndall was widely read & Foote, being a woman, wasn't permitted to present her own work.

This is an important story that bears repeating. Tyndall's defenders say that he did not know about Foote's paper, but the scientific community was very small and tight-knit at the time. The persistent denials that Tyndall knew of Foote's work does not ring true to me.

A nice summary of Foote's work & history: www.lostwomenofscience.org/episodes/the...

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called “father of the greenhouse effect” by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?