tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post5518238222809290184..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: The Foote EffectEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-52573778471315469722019-08-20T19:45:48.939-04:002019-08-20T19:45:48.939-04:00"Recently, maybe a year ago, an 1856 report b...<i>"Recently, maybe a year ago, an 1856 report by Edith Eunice Newton Foote to the AAAS national meeting has come to light"</i><br /><br />I'm glad this is a little more widely known. Her work was noted at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2011. I posted about it at SkS that year.<br /><br /><a href="https://skepticalscience.com/climate-curve-fitting-fools-gold.html#61013" rel="nofollow">https://skepticalscience.com/climate-curve-fitting-fools-gold.html#61013</a><br /><br />Emailed Spencer Weart about it and a year or two later the first Footenote (sorry) in the chapter on the CO2 Greenhouse Effect includes her name along with Tyndall's.<br /><br /><a href="https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm#N_1_" rel="nofollow">https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm#N_1_</a>barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419101193566520809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-41030683734149540662019-08-14T22:18:11.617-04:002019-08-14T22:18:11.617-04:00Seems to be Eli's day in the barrel. Correcte...Seems to be Eli's day in the barrel. Corrected.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-30061455042719435312019-08-13T22:53:54.542-04:002019-08-13T22:53:54.542-04:00Dave Bunny:
No footering please- both the glass c...Dave Bunny:<br /><br />No footering please- both the glass cylinder and the glass thermometer Foote employed were as opaque to the infrared wavelengths CO2 absorbs and emits as a greenhouse roof, and both trapped thermal energy radiated by the gas- she ended up measuring gas thermal conductivity as much as IR optical depth.<br /><br />Bill Nye had a similar problem with the jar full of CO2 in his inconclusive TV experiment, and Tyndall was the first to solve it by introducing infrared transparent rock salt windows on IR reflective metal tubes.<br /><br />Kudos to Foote for trying, but it was the dab lab hand Tyndall who suceeded-THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-46018141702844980992019-08-13T16:54:22.258-04:002019-08-13T16:54:22.258-04:00Poor Edith Foote, completely forgotten these days,...Poor Edith Foote, completely forgotten these days, and all the credit given to the (related?) [[Eunice Newton Foote]] who is reported as writing a remarkably similar paper in 1856, though a gentleman had to present it on her behalf because sexism. <br /><br />Her discovery looks well worth commemorating, unfortunately in Scots there is already a process known as Footering, akin to prevarication to put it nicely, a term more appropriate for a widespread political response to global warming. <br /><br />We can but hope that the Foote Effect doesn't get mixed up with Footering. <br /><br />Dave Bunnydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05472098969204011008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-87437950980826513002019-08-13T02:45:16.866-04:002019-08-13T02:45:16.866-04:00:) :) David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15914145623997712113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-30961613185739338422019-08-12T21:54:13.925-04:002019-08-12T21:54:13.925-04:00Let's scap the confusing acronyms and call the...Let's scap the confusing acronyms and call the core issue :<br /><br />Tyndall Doubling Sensitivity<br /><br /><br />The late Sir John ( Tyndall, not Maddox ) deserves to be remembered for <a href="https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2018/11/did-whale-oil-industry-know-about.html" rel="nofollow">so precociously bringing these matters to Parliamentary attention.</a>THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-8674249883527618172019-08-12T10:29:05.552-04:002019-08-12T10:29:05.552-04:00"Greenhouse effect" is so set in the lit..."Greenhouse effect" is so set in the literature it's folly to try to change it now. "Planetary nebulae" have nothing to do with planets, but try changing that name.Barton Paul Levensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630802738456749652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-91393758606804482822019-08-12T10:09:36.486-04:002019-08-12T10:09:36.486-04:00How about: Rabett's Foote Law?How about: Rabett's Foote Law?jgnfldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18345702872292499039noreply@blogger.com