Amazing. TIL that @arte the franco-german public service broadcaster in Europe has a completely open app showing their programmes. Here to celebrate is a beautiful short documentary about Eunice Newton Foote, including a re-enactment of her (now famous) experiments showing how #CarbonDioxide is a #GreenhouseGas.
(TIL also that #UncleSam was actually a real person) #ClimateChange#eunicefoote#ArteTV
Today is Eunice Foote's birthday! She was the first person to demonstrate that CO2 and water vapour absorbed more heat than the atmosphere of the time - in the 1850s! I wonder what she'd think of the climate crisis...
Small point: although #ExxonKnew and promoted 'unreasonable psychology', of course they weren't the first to understand the greenhouse effect: see eg #JohnTyndall and #EuniceFoote in the 1850s and Svante #Arrhenius's public talks in the 1890s.
Agree we can collectively #StopBurningStuff. It requires not just technical solutions, eg #electrification and #heatpumps, but making sure human institutions do not undermine true sustainability.
Unternehmen wie Exxon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Gazprom, BP, TotalEnergies, RWE und andere zerstören für den schnellen Profit durch Finanzierung und Durchführung fossiler Projekte wissentlich unsere Lebensgrundlage.
Ich habe mir nun auch den englischen Wiki-Eintrag über #EuniceFoote durchgelesen. Dort steht:
"In 👉1856👈 she published a paper notable for demonstrating the absorption of heat by #CO2 and water vapor and hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO2 in the #atmosphere would alter the #climate. It was 👉the first known publication in a scientific journal by an American woman in the field of physics.👈"