A closer look
Decades before guys in lab coats started arguing over carbon emissions, an amateur scientist named Eunice Foote literally bottled global warming. In 1856, she pumped carbon dioxide into a glass cylinder, stuck a thermometer in it, and left it in the sun. She noted that the CO2 trapped significantly more heat than regular air, casually writing down that an atmosphere full of this stuff would give the Earth a severe fever. Because she was a woman in the 19th century, her paper was read by a man at a scientific assembly, and she was promptly forgotten for over 150 years while men claimed the climate science glory.
