1856: Eunice Foote finds that the heating effect of the sun was greater in moist air than dry air, and that it was highest of all in a cylinder containing carbon dioxide...and writes "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature..." www.climate.gov/news-feature... 🧪

RMxkcd.comFeb 2, 2024 6:16pm

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Thanks for adding credit to Foote. Her work, that of Arrhenius, J-B Fourier, Richard Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin) and others meant that science had the data on and decent models for the mechanisms of climate change by 1900.