Was Eunice Foote, writing in 1856, the First Climate Alarmist? “The highest effect of the sun’s rays I have found to be in carbonic acid gas [carbon dioxide]. An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history, the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature from its own action, as well as from increased weight, must have necessarily resulted.” These are the conclusions of Eunice Foote, a farmer’s daughter from upstate New York, in a paper presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Albany, New York, in 1856. Read more.
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