Eunice Newton Foote makes first public scientific mention of the upcoming "Greenhouse effect" in an 1856 paper , titled “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” , presented at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Foote' s short paper included a prescient conclusion; “An atmosphere of that gas (Carbon Dioxide) would give to our earth a high temperature,” describing the phenomenon we now call the greenhouse effect, the main cause of climate change.
Up until 2010, before her work was rediscovered and she was recognized as the pioneer that she was, scientists had believed that John Tyndall deserved the credit as the first person to show the involvement of infrared radiation in the greenhouse effect which he presented in June 2, 1859. More
