This post was written by Jessica (Jingyun) Lin, GSAS ‘26 and an intern in the RBML’s Graduate Student Internship in Primary Sources. She recently processed the Wallace S. Broecker papers. The Dangerous Playground We will think about early human bones when we hear the word carbon-14 dating. We might think of mummies and Tutankhamun […]
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Columbia Professor key to climate science, dies at 87
Professor Emeritus Wallace Broecker, a noted climate scientist with Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, died 18 February 2019 at the age of 87. His scientific contributions are being touted in major news sources, notably his landmark paper on increased carbon dioxide levels as a predictor of rises in global temperatures, which gave us “global warming” as a […]