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[–] marco@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Two hundred years ago today, on July 17, 1819, Eunice Foote was born. Thirty-some years later, the amateur climate scientist made the remarkable discovery that when sunlight shines on carbon dioxide in a closed container—our atmosphere, for example—heat builds up inside. https://www.audubon.org/news/the-female-scientist-who-discovered-basics-climate-science-and-was-forgotten

And then there is also this:

A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research