Climate scientist Wallace Smith Broecker
Wallace Smith Broecker was an American geophysicist.
He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University
He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography.
Broecker received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
Wallace Smith Broecker, popularised the term "global warming"
Broecker brought "global warming" into common use with a 1975 paper that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming.
He joined Columbia's faculty in 1959 and was known in science circles as the "Grandfather of Climate Science".
Wallace Smith Broecker was an American geophysicist.
He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University
He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography.
Broecker received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
Wallace Smith Broecker, popularised the term "global warming"
Broecker brought "global warming" into common use with a 1975 paper that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming.
He joined Columbia's faculty in 1959 and was known in science circles as the "Grandfather of Climate Science".
