Eunice Newton Foote's 1856 research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society for decades. The first kind of, sort of, maybe global action on climate change, the Kyoto protocol, didn't come until 140 years later.warnings about the dangers of climate change
Foote wasn't allowed to present her own work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1856. Nope, the highly regarded Joseph Henry, first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, did that.
In the first part of NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain's climate change survival guide, he explains the basics of why the planet is warming and what needs to change to protect its future. Scientists agree that the safe limit of warming is only 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and we've already hit 2.2 degrees. What's more, we're headed toward warming of 5 degrees, and the results could be "apocalyptic," Cain says.Of course, she was right.