The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote.

[publicdomainrev@mastodon.social]

The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856 #earthday #climatechange

[williambob@mastodon.social]

@publicdomainrev -just sent this to my Med schooling niece asking her more women in S.T.E.M. was a better solve than, perhaps, FN listening...

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@publicdomainrev

When the fossil fuel industry decides to bury a career, there are no half measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tarbell

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rockefellers-tarbell/

And they're still promoting planet-frying policies. AI "disruption" is really deliberate energy wasting policy.

https://qz.com/rockefeller-foundation-100-million-good-jobs-ai-disruption-042226

And for the same reasons; international corporate rule.
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/04/16/could-ais-leading-men-become-as-powerful-as-ford-or-rockefeller
https://archive.is/9Udkx

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 If the buggy whip industry was as powerful, they’d have tarred and feathered Henry Ford and run him out of town, never to be seen again. Kind of what GM, big oil diesel suppliers and Firestone did to the electric interurban rail system in the US to promote their busses.