“Please include Eunice Newton Foote in the Women’s Suffrage National Monument.”
My reasons for requesting Eunice Newton Foote be included in the Women’s Suffrage National Monument are:
1. Eunice Foote was an American suffragette who actively campaigned for women's rights with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a fellow suffragette. Example: Foote was a named signatory of the 1848 "Declaration of Sentiments" published by the first Woman’s Rights Convention, held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. See https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer.
2. Foote was the "first scientist to identify the insulating effect of certain gases, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the 'greenhouse effect.'" Brilliant in my humble opinion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote.
3. In 2022, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) instituted "The Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science" to honor Foote's scientific achievements. AGU awards the medal "annually to an exceptional senior scientist for outstanding creative achievements in research at the intersection of Earth and life sciences …" "Recipients of this medal typically conduct research in Atmospheric Science, Biogeosciences, GeoHealth, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology, Ocean Sciences, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Planetary Sciences, Volcanology-Geochemistry-Petrology, or related fields." Very impressive! See https://www.agu.org/honors/foote.
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