Painting, inventing, politicising - and researching: Eunice Foote
Eunice Foote - the unknown pioneer of climate science
Illustrations
Client: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Client: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
The first person to explain the greenhouse effect was the Irishman John Tyndall. But an amateur researcher recognized the warming effect of carbon dioxide three years before him. Do the history books need to be rewritten?
In an experiment, Eunice Foote demonstrates the warming caused by CO2
