Climate Scientist Wally Broecker, Who Popularized Term ‘Global Warming’, Dies at 87

Associated Press

Wally Broecker, a prominent climate scientist who brought “global warming” into common use with a 1975 paper that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels would lead to pronounced warming, has died at age 87. He was among the first to recognize the thermohaline circulation, or ocean conveyor belt, and to warn a U.S. president about climate change (in 1965). “The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks,” he said in 1998.

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