Climate change and the ‘greenhouse effect’ fears may feel like a relatively new thing but scientists began to realise the link between certain gases and rising temperature way back in the early 1800’s.
The first person known to have experimented on the warming effect on sunlight and different gases was Eunice Foote, an American scientist, inventor, women’s right campaigner and distant relation to Isaac Newton
Similar work was also carried in out in 1859 by Irish scientist John Tyndall and by the early 1900’s some even believed it would lead to the extinction of the human race.