Wallace Smith Broecker (Wally) Quotes

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.

Wallace Smith Broecker

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• Warming

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• 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.

  

  Wallace Smith Broecker
  • Records
  • Climate
  • Beast