Slowly but surely rectifying history’s erasure of groundbreaking women:

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Do you know about the woman who discovered the cause of global warming?

“Eunice Newton Foote rarely gets the credit she’s due. The American scientist, who was born exactly 200 years ago on Wednesday, was the first woman in climate science. It was back in 1856 that Foote theorized that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth’s temperature. She broke scientific ground that remains more relevant than ever in 2019, but history overlooked her until just a few years ago.”

Keep reading here: https://time.com/5626806/eunice-foote-women-climate-science/

[Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

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