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Although many credit John Tyndall with having discovered the greenhouse effect in 1859, it may in fact have first been described by a woman, Eunice Foote, who identified the process in 1856, three years earlier, in a paper in The American Journal of Science and Arts.
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See Foote (1856) at https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152491/page/382/mode/2up?view=theater. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
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See Sorenson (2011): “Eunice Foote’s Pioneering Research On CO\(_{2}\) And Climate Warming” (PDF). Search and Discovery (70092). https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/70092sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
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See also the extensive work by Castle and Hendry (2020) on the need of multiple goals and instruments for climate protection.
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Nyambuu, U., Semmler, W. (2023). Introduction and Overview. In: Sustainable Macroeconomics, Climate Risks and Energy Transitions. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27982-9_1
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