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An appreciation of Eunice Foote, the suffragist and scientist who — way back in 1856 — conducted the first known experiment to demonstrate that CO2 was a heat-trapping gas …

…. and who, when writing up a paper of her findings, theorized that if the Earth’s atmosphere accumulated lots of CO2, the planet would warm up also

Alas, her work was lost to history until quite recently: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-19th-century-woman-who-predicted-global-warming-af93f6b473ce

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