Unveiling climate change with Eunice Foote

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Climate change is defined as the increase in average temperature, mainly due to the greenhouse effect, and extreme weather events caused by human activity. Both its existence and its anthropogenic origin are more than proven. Although the concept of the greenhouse effect is relatively new, more than two centuries ago, a woman, Eunice Foote, was the first to postulate it and demonstrate it empirically ahead of the scientific opinion of her time. However, she was relegated to the background after the subsequent contributions of scientists such as the physicist J. Tydall, the mathematician J. Fourier or the Nobel Prize in Chemistry S. Arrhenius. In this activity, Eunice Foote's experiment will be reproduced and the different heating process of different types of gases (CO2, humid air, dry air,…) subjected to a thermal source will be shown, and it will be exposed / will explain the phenomenology underlying this fact. All the activity will be framed in the role of women in science, and more specifically in climate change with the help of a presentation with a laptop.