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The climate scientist who popularized the term "global warming" has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.
Columbia University said the longtime professor and researcher died Monday at a New York City hospital. A spokesperson for the university's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory said Broecker had been ailing in recent months.
Broecker brought the term "global warming" into common use with a 1975 paper that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming.
Broecker was also first to recognize what he called the Ocean Conveyor Belt, a global system of ocean currents circulating water and nutrients.
The header sums to 808, like 88 when you drop the 0, 88 a number that represents time
In the Ocean Conveyor Belt, cold, salty water in the North Atlantic sinks, working like a plunger to drive an ocean current from near North America to Europe. Warm surface waters borne by this current help keep Europe's climate mild.
Otherwise, he said, Europe would be a deep freeze, with average winter temperatures dropping by about 11 degrees or more and London feeling more like Spitsbergen, Norway, which is nearly 1,000 km north of the Arctic Circle.
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.
From Wallace Broecker's birthday (11/29/18) to the day of his death (2/18/19) is a span of 81 days, 82 counting the end date.
It is also a span of 2 months and 20 days, like 220, 221 counting the end date
On the bottom right hand corner, you will see that it is a span of 11 weeks and 4 days, like 114, 115 counting the end date.
Date numerology: 2/18/2019 = 2+18+20+19 = 59
Day of death was on February 18, 2019, date written 2/18 or 18/2
Wallace Smith Broecker
"We live in a climate system that can jump abruptly from one state to another," Broecker told The Associated Press in 1997. By dumping into the atmosphere huge amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, "we are conducting an experiment that could have devastating effects."
"We're playing with an angry beast — a climate system that has been shown to be very sensitive," he said.
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