Eunice Newton Foote was a pioneer in climate science at a time when women were excluded from scientific discussions, publications and organizations. But she was the very first person (although someone else claimed that HE was the first!) to prove the link between carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and a warming Earth. Foote Was First shares the story of her childhood, education, marriage, motherhood and participation in the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights convention — and how her experiments proved the process known today as the greenhouse effect.