Book Launch: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible

Sep 5, 2020 | Ilana Cohen, Inside Climate News
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The American scientist Eunice Newton Foote theorized in 1856 that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could produce global warming three years before similar work by the Irish physicist John Tyndall, whose research on warming is often cited as the beginning of climate science. Foote was also an early women's rights campaigner, signing the 1848 Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments," a manifesto produced during the nation's first women's rights convention.