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Eunice Newton Foote, the woman who wrote the first paper linking CO2 and global warming - Magpie - Aug 6 2025
Her paper was also the first known published physics article written by a female scientist. Aside from her contribution to climate science, she was a women's rights campaigner and an inventor who filed a number of patents, although mostly in her husband's name.
You can view the original paper and read more about Foote here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856/
Quote:Foote’s seminal experiment was ingeniously homemade. Using four thermometers, two glass cylinders, and an air pump, she isolated the component gases that make up the atmosphere and exposed them to the sun’s rays, both in sunlight and in shade. Measuring the change in their temperatures, she discovered that carbon dioxide and water vapor absorbed enough heat that this absorption could affect climate.