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February 20, 2019

Wallace Broecker, Pioneering Climate Scientist Who Popularized Term "Global Warming," Dies at 87
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And renowned geophysicist, Columbia professor and climate scientist
Wallace Broecker died Monday at the age of 87 in New York. Broecker is
credited with popularizing the term "global warming" and was one of the
first scientists to demonstrate the link between carbon emissions and
rising temperatures in the 1970s. He also advanced scientific
understanding of the oceans' effect on the atmosphere, which he termed
the "ocean conveyor belt." In 1975, he published a landmark research
paper titled "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced
Global Warming?" outlining the role of human activity on the climate.
Professor Broecker famously said, "The climate system is an angry beast,
and we are poking it with sticks.''


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