Fortunately for Foote, some highly placed friends at court helped the theatre reopen and the play continued. In June, Foote offered A Cup of Tea, a revision of his revue, Diversions, again in the guise of a culinary offering. After a brief trip to Paris, Foote opened The Auction of Pictures which satirized satirist Henry Fielding. A war of wit was launched with each lambasting the other in ink and onstage. Among the verbal missiles hurled, Fielding denounced Foote in The Jacobite's Journal saying "you Samuel Fut [sic] be pissed upon, with Scorn and Contempt, as a low Buffoon; and I do, with the utmost Scorn and Contempt, piss on you accordingly." [13] The Author himself [ edit ] The first quantitative estimate of carbon dioxide-induced climate change was made by Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate. In 1896, he calculated that "the temperature in the Arctic regions would rise 8 or 9 degrees Celsius if carbon dioxide increased to 2.5 or 3 times" its level at that time. Arrhenius' estimate was likely conservative: Since 1900 atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen from about 300 parts per million to around 417 ppm as a result of human activities, and the Arctic has already warmed by about 3.8 C (6.8 F). Music Instrument News is sad to report that long established music retailer Chas Footes is closing down, with a clearance sale currently being advertised. a b Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.ref:odnb/65504. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/65504 . Retrieved 6 March 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) American Association for the Advancement of Science" (PDF). New-York Daily Tribune. New York, New York. August 17, 1857. p.6. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 10, 2022 . Retrieved July 10, 2022.

The greenhouse effect is a warming of earth’s surface and troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere) caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other gases in the air. Wikimedia Commons Eunice Newton Foote’s signed name on the Declaration of Sentiments, right below Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s. Footes is delighted to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year. Read on for some interesting History into a much loved retailer! One play, The Cozeners, is clearly based on the politician Charles James Fox who was a spendthrift and gambler. He had been duped by Elizabeth Harriett Grieve who had promised that she could arrange for him to marry a West Indian heiress. Grieve was tried and transported in 1773 and in the following year The Cozeners [29] opened with Mrs Gardner in the part of Mrs Fleece'em. [30] Foote's satires are based on caricatures of characters and situations from his era. His facility and wit in writing these earned him the title "the English Aristophanes." While, often, his subjects found his literary jabs just as humorous as his audiences, they often both feared and admired him. [1] Legal troubles [ edit ] Shapiro, Maura (August 23, 2021). "Eunice Newton Foote's Nearly Forgotten Discovery". Physics Today. Vol.2021, no.4. Woodbury, New York: American Institute of Physics. pp.823a. doi: 10.1063/PT.6.4.20210823a. ISSN 0031-9228. S2CID 243736416 . Retrieved December 29, 2021.During Newton's attendance, the assistant principal of the seminary was Willard's sister Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, who prepared the school's curricula and wrote textbooks for the students. [24] [Notes 3] Students were allowed to challenge their marks prior to the weekly meeting evaluating their moral gaps. [26] Rather than the typical finishing school curricula offered to girls, [27] pupils studied dance, history, languages (English, French, Italian, Latin), literature, mathematics (general, algebra, geometry), music, painting, philosophy, rhetoric, and science (botany, domestic science). [5] [28] At the Rensselaer School, Newton learned how to conduct research, as well as laboratory testing. [11] [18] [29] Girls attending the school could study astronomy, chemistry, geography, meteorology, and natural philosophy. [11] [30] Marriage and family life [ edit ] Reading this, Sorenson knew at once that he had rediscovered a great figure forgotten by the history of science. In January 2011, the geologist published his finding in the online geoscience journal AAPG Search and Discovery . “It is clear that Eunice Foote deserves credit for being an innovator on the topic of CO 2 and its potential impact on global climate warming,” he wrote. In the late 1770s, Horace Bénédict de Saussure had used a similar apparatus to Foote's and concluded that altitude impacted solar heat in an enclosed cylinder. [63] [66] Joseph Fourier had theorized in the 1820s that atmospheric gases trapped solar heat. [18] Neither of them had recognized the increase in solar heat by CO 2 and water vapor in the atmosphere, which was unique to Foote's findings. [63] [78] In 1859, John Tyndall reported his more sophisticated research, using a Leslie cube and a differential spectrometer, showing that several gases both trapped and emitted infrared thermal radiation rather than sunlight. [6] [59] [71] His work, "Note on the Transmission of Radiant Heat through Gaseous Bodies" was published that year in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, of which he was a fellow. [4] [79] Doran, Dr. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Vol. II. London, John C. Nimmo. 1888. Reprinted by AMS Press, New York. 1968.

Darby, Megan (September 2, 2016). "Meet the Woman Who First Identified the Greenhouse Effect". Climate Home News. Broadstairs, Kent: Climate Change News Ltd. Archived from the original on April 24, 2022 . Retrieved July 13, 2022. Foote was educated at Truro Grammar School, [7] the collegiate school at Worcester, and at Worcester College, Oxford, distinguishing himself in these places by mimicry and audacious pleasantries of all kinds. [2] An undisciplined student, he frequently was absent from his Latin and Greek classes and subsequently, Oxford expelled him on 28 January 1740. [4] Although he left Oxford without receiving his degree, he acquired a classical training which afterwards enabled him to easily turn a classical quotation or allusion, and helped to give to his prose style a certain fluency and elegance. [2] But in other respects, Eunice Foote would remain a footnote in the history books. That notation would say that she was also a science-loving woman; her surname is no coincidence, as her father was apparently a distant relative of Sir Isaac Newton, and in fact bore the same first name as him. Among Eunice’s influences was Amos Eaton, who is credited with introducing higher education in science in the USA. Trained in science but without a university degree—which at the time was an avenue generally closed to women—Eunice spent part of her time experimenting, publishing the first two physics studies by a woman in the US, and dreaming up inventions such as a filling for the soles of shoes and boots to prevent squeaking when walking. Reed, Elizabeth Wagner (1992). "Eunice Newton Foote: 1819–1888". American Women in Science before the Civil War (PDF). Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. pp.65–68. OCLC 28126164. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2016. In 1965, scientists warned U.S. President Lyndon Johnson about the growing climate risk, concluding: "Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment. Within a few generations he is burning the fossil fuels that slowly accumulated in the earth over the past 500 million years." The scientists issued clear warnings of high temperatures, melting ice caps, rising sea levels and acidification of ocean waters.Herrmann, Ulrike (December 13, 2019). "Mit Glaskolben und Sonnenlicht"[With a Flask and Sunlight]. Die Tageszeitung (in German). Berlin, Germany. Archived from the original on June 22, 2022 . Retrieved July 13, 2022. Foote, Samuel. The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Esq.; to which is prefaced A Life of the Author. London, 1809. Reprinted by Benjamin Bloom, Bronx, New York. USpatent 135,899, Foote, Elisha,"Improvement in Grain-Bands, Bag-Ties, &c.",published February 18, 1873 The discovery of the greenhouse effect is often attributed to physicist John Tyndall, who carried out a series of experiments in 1859 looking at how heat affected air. However, in 2011, amateur historian Raymond Sorenson discovered a record of a presentation of Foote’s work at the 10th annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1856, two years before Tyndall’s experiments started.