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Thermic Effect of the Sun's Rays in The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art Toronto, printed for the Canadian Institute. New Series, No. VII, January 1857; 227x148mm. 80pp, with the summary of the Foote 1856 paper in a paragraph on page 72. Original wrappers. Nice condition, though there is an old fold that runs 3 or so in the right corner of the pamphlet throughout the whole issue. [++] This is a summary of Foote's groundbreaking 1856 paper ("Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays" published in the American Journal of Science and Arts ). Foote (in the decades before greenhouse effect was coined) demonstrated the effect in her home lab, and reported it, and was promptly forgotten before she became known. There is a note at the bottom of the Foote paragraph that reads to be continued what is continued is not the Foote article, but a continuation of other reports presented at that same meeting that Foote reported to (American Association for the Advancement of Science), so the Foote is complete. [++] ABOUT FOOTE [++] Eunice (Newton) Foote (1819-1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner (see S.Richardson, "Suffragist Scientist" in "American History," 2/2020) who made an important discovery that was historically and not surprisingly underappreciated and undervalued (see "Eunice Newton Foote's nearly forgotten discovery" 2021, "Physics Today", Vol. 2021, Issue 4, p. 823) in her research she established a pioneering understanding of the Earth's climate and the role greenhouse gases in global warming. In 1856 Foote ("the first woman of climate science", see "TIME", "Where Credit is Due," 194/4, 2019, pg 20) presented her experimental findings on the effects of different gases on the Earth's temperature--most significantly on the heat-absorbing properties of CO2 and its warming effect on the Earth's atmosphere--at the AAAS meeting in Albany, New York. She was the first scientist to conclude that certain gases warmed when exposed to sunlight, and that rising carbon dioxide levels would change atmospheric temperature and could affect climate, a phe-nomenon now referred to as the Greenhouse Effect. [++] John Perlin's [prof physics, UCSB] assertion that Eunice Foote should be considered the founder of climate science is based on Foote's three contri-butions: she was the first to experimentally demonstrate that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas; the first to suggest that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would result in a hotter Earth; and she was the first to suggest that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide had strongly influenced temperature levels over the history of the earth. --"Eunice Foote to UCSB--A Story of Women, Science and Climate Change" UCSB online exhibit [++] Offered here is a summary of the now-famous but then-obscure paper of the pioneering scientist "Eunice Foote, who in 1856 discovered the absorption of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapour. That was three years before John Tyndall, who is generally credited with this important discovery, a cornerstone of our current understanding of the greenhouse effect, climate change, weather and meteorology."--Roland Jackson, in "Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and a Question of Priority in Notes and Records," (2020), 74, 105-118. [++] Foote's novel theory that directly linked the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to terrestrial temperatures was as world changing for the study of past climates in its bold use of new discoveries to cast off an older paradigm held together solely by baseless presumptions maintained by a coterie of powerful male scientists. Foote s work created for the first time a fact-based explanation for the change in climate over geological time, setting the foundation for today's climate change science. "Eunice Foote, The Woman Scientist Who Discovered in 1856 that Carbon Dioxide is a Greenhouse Gas and Its Effects on Planet Earth Based -- John Perlman.
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