Moments that matter: How climate change tipping points are benchmarks for change
Over 200 years ago in the 1820’s, French physicist Joseph Fourier was studying how certain gases in the atmosphere could trap heat and first described what we now call the greenhouse gas effect. Later that century, in 1856 American female scientist Eunice Foote showed that carbon dioxide could trap heat. Then in 1896, Swedish scientist
October 29, 2025