Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse?

1987/07/01 by Wallace S. Broecker · 1 voice · 296 citations
Energy · Environmental Science · #Astrobiology #Atmosphere (unit) #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Atmospheric sciences #Biology #Carbon dioxide #Climate change #Earth science #Ecology #Economics #Environmental science #Geography #Geology #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Global warming #Greenhouse effect #Greenhouse gas #Meteorology #Natural resource economics #Oceanography #Physics

paper · doi:10.1038/328123a0

published in Nature 328(6126), 123-126 (Nature Portfolio)

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Discussions

• Scientists are accustomed to gradual change. But for a large part of Wally Broecker's career — based on paleoclimate evidence — he was obsessed with the idea of abrupt climate change that arrives sud [bsky, 22 points, 2 comments]