geebeeWASep 26, 2023
Sheril Kirshenbaum

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect. 

NOAA Climate.gov
Sep 26, 2023 at 12:59pmMetatext
Show threadjavimel1213Sep 26, 2023
@Sheril Very interesting
Show threadKonrad RudolphSep 26, 2023

@Sheril A woman’s contribution to science relegated to a foote note yet again.

(Sorry!)

Show threadTappin LisaSep 26, 2023

@klmr @Sheril

Are you *really* sorry? 😁

Show threadPhilip SetnikSep 26, 2023

@TappinLisa @klmr @Sheril

Well, since the "foote note" joke is already taken, I'll just say that when it comes to Tyndall, the shoe is on the other foote, now!

Show threadCANELA BLANCASep 9, 2024
@klmr @Sheril
Show threadSellaTheChemistSep 9, 2024
@klmr @Sheril 👏👏👏👏😂
Show threadthinkStorySep 26, 2023
@Sheril @design_law This should be a #movie. If anyone wants to collaborate on writing a #script, let me know! #screenwriting
Show threadSheril KirshenbaumSep 26, 2023
@thinkStory @design_law She’s a fascinating person & also a champion of women’s rights.
Show threadDJSep 26, 2023
@Sheril I've seen a bunch of these lately (women and minorities not being credited) and I keep sharing them with my wife, appreciate the post.
Show threadnormenSep 26, 2023
@Sheril It was just easier to take something from a woman back then. Theres many examples of this, just think Edison and Tesla. Who's name is first on a paper is another of these things. Often students make the discovery and their prof gets the credit.
Show threadpartyp00perSep 26, 2023
@normen @Sheril wait? Why are you dragging tesla into this. Are you saying he had assistants he stole credit from? Because I have never heard or read that anywhere before. Sauce?
Show threadnormenSep 26, 2023
@partyp00er No, Tesla worked for Edison and quickly realized that only Edison benefited from that. @Sheril
Show threadpartyp00perSep 26, 2023
@normen @Sheril cool I just misunderstood, I knew that Tesla worked for that huckster Edison for while :)
Show threadnormenSep 26, 2023
@partyp00er As a rule of thumb, if somebody actively supports statues of themselves and want their name on everything - they‘re probably *not* what they want you to think they are. @Sheril
Show threadAsarielSep 26, 2023
@Sheril People should read 'The scientific education of women' speech by Eugenio Maria de Hostos. Especially those who are in crystal ceiling organization.
Show threadThreadbaneSep 26, 2023
@Sheril
The greenhouse effect was proposed in 1824 by Joseph Fourier, although he didn't use that expression.
Show threadPhil ReesSep 26, 2023
@Sheril We should also give credit to Louisa Tyndall for her silent co-authorship of many of John's papers and her highly effective research into the medicinal uses of chloral hydrate.
Show threadEric WinnertSep 26, 2023
@Sheril jeez 160 years we've had the climate science, and still do nothing.
Show threadSabine.PahlSep 9, 2024

@Sheril

Well, there you go: "The sphere of woman embraces not only the beautiful and the useful, but the true" (on introducing the scientific work of Mrs. Eunice Foote)

Show threadSellaTheChemistSep 9, 2024
@Sheril At the risk of being accused of mansplaining, the idea that the atmosphere changed/affected planetary temperature, later referred to as the greenhouse effect, is down to Joseph Fourier who obsessed about heat transfer for decades.
What Eunice Foote spotted was that CO2 and wet/damp air gave rise to heating in a glass jar when exposed to sunlight. Her lovely, simple experiment, that many of us have repeated as a demonstration, is actually quite hard to explain…