Last May, John Perlin led a symposium at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) on Eunice Foote’s life and work – and is lead curator of the forthcoming exhibit at UCSB celebrating Eunice Foote’s 200th birthday. He is currently searching for a publisher for the completed manuscript – In Search of Eunice Foote: The Woman Who Discovered Global Warming 163 Years Ago. A completely revised and updated edition of John’s Harvard University Press Classic, A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization, will be published by Patagonia Books in the fall of 2020. Nobel Laureates Drs. Walter Kohn and Alan Heeger brought John into UCSB’s department of Physics in 2003 to research and write the screenplay for the documentary, The Power of the Sun.
A “Foote-Note” on the Hidden History of Climate Science: Why You Have Never Heard of Eunice Foote
While both the acolytes of Adam Smith and Karl Marx worshipped the fossil-fueled industrial revolution as the driver toward the paradise that the invisible hand of the market or the golden age of communism would create, Eunice Foote’s experiments reveal the fatal flaw on which these dreams were made and that would one day turn into the nightmare we are just beginning to wake.
July 30, 2019