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Happy Saturday.

If you're not caught up on this news,

the U.S. federal government has been cutting funding for wind and solar projects

and pushing for increased use of fossil fuels and proposing to illegally terminate the orbiting

carbon observatory satellites that monitor carbon dioxide growth and plant growth, just sending functional satellites to burn up in the atmosphere and otherwise sabotaging American contributions to the global effort to try to slow the rate of climate change. That is something that will have a destructive impact on the entire planet,

but especially some of the poorest and most vulnerable parts of the world,

many of which are already struggling with things like extreme weather and sea level rise.

So for today's Saturday classic,

we are replaying our episode on Eunice Newton Foote,

the first scientist known to make a connection between greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide

and a warming climate. She did this almost 170 years ago in 1856, and this episode originally

came out on September 8th, 2021.

If you're about to write us an email saying that we only care about the climate during the Trump administration, Joe Biden was president then.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

We have done various episodes related to the environment on the show before. So things like the Denora smog and the Cuyahoga River Fires and the London Smog of 1952,

we talked about extinctions in our 2018 episode on Endlings and about invasive species

in our episode on Australia's rabbit-proof fence, and then in more recent times,

in our episode on Kudzu that came out not too long ago,

while all of these topics are related to the environment

and humans and industries' impacts on the environment,

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