Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Wallace Smith Broecker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Wallace Smith Broecker.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Wallace Smith Broecker

Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker was an American geochemist. 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 popularized the term "global warming". He received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks — © Wallace Smith Broecker
Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
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