She Figured Out Climate Change in 1856. Then We Forgot Her.

In 1856, a woman named Eunice Newton Foote filled glass cylinders with carbon dioxide, set them in the sun, and described the greenhouse effect. Three years before John Tyndall, who gets the credit in every textbook. She also signed the Seneca Falls Declaration at the United States' first Women's Rights Convention. Her paper on the greenhouse effect was presented at the AAAS by a man on her behalf, published in a real journal, and then forgotten for a hundred and fifty years until an oil industry historian accidentally found it in 2010. This is her story, and a map of how scientific credit disappears. 0:30 - The Problem With Origin Stories 1:37 - Who Was Eunice Newton Foote 2:55 - The Experiment 5:17 - The Presentation That Wasn't Hers to Give 6:24 - Enter Tyndall 7:14 - How You Erase a Scientist 10:13 - The Rediscovery 11:25 - What It Means #EuniceFoote #WomenInScience #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #GreenhouseEffect #ScienceHistory #ForgottenHistory #historyofscience #WomensRights Music Credit: Maestro Tlakaelel - Jesse Gallagher