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Senate declares July 17 'Eunice Newton Foote Day,' recognizing overlooked climate-science pioneer
Summary
The California State Senate on July 17 adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 99 recognizing Eunice Newton Foote and designating her birthday as Eunice Newton Foote Day, with senators praising her 19th-century experiments on greenhouse gases and the modern effort to restore her place in scientific history.
The California State Senate on July 17 adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 99, designating July 17 as Eunice Newton Foote Day and recognizing the 19th-century scientist’s early experiments demonstrating the warming effect of greenhouse gases.
Senator Allen, who presented the resolution, said Foote’s glass-chamber experiments showed that “an atmosphere of that gas gives to our earth a higher temperature,” and called her work “the first time any scientist, man or woman,…
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