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	Podcast:		Short Wave
	Episode:		Eunice Foote: The Hidden Grandmother Of Climate Science
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:11:43
	Publish Date:		2023-03-31 04:15:13
	Description:		Today, most climate science is done with satellites, sensors and complicated computer models. But it all started with a pioneering female physicist and two glass tubes. Eunice Foote, the woman behind that glass tube experiment, has largely been left out of the history books. Until about 10 years ago, John Tyndall was seen as the grandfather of climate science for setting the foundation for the understanding of the greenhouse gas effect. But Eunice's experiment, done three years prior, showed that air with more "carbonic acid," or carbon dioxide, both heated up faster and cooled down slower than regular air.
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