you know, this was originally the overseas railroad, built by an oil man named henry flagler, driven by the audacious vision of turning sea and swamp into paradise. man, if he could see it now. but 20 years before flagler found florida, a woman in upstate new york discovered something even more profound. her name was yunis newton foote, she was an artists are and scientist. she found when you put different gasses in the sun, it perhaps heat and atmospheres of that gas would give our earth a high temperature. back then nobody paid attention to scientists in skirts. even at countless men duplicated her discovery, there was no stopping the industrial revolution. coal and oil transformed humanity, built the modern world, complete with overseas highways. but all that burning also built an invisible greenhouse in the sky. and thanks to all that heat trapping gas, just the oceans are absorbing as much extra heat as five hiroshima-size atomic bombs every second of every minute every day. yeunice foote was right. and 163 years later on independence day 2019, anchorage was hotter than key west