Global Warming Expert Wallace S. Broecker Comes to Bennington
Columbia University Newberry Professor of Geology Wallace S. Broecker, a major figure in the climate-change debate and one of the most influential geoscientists of the last half-century, will discuss "What Must We Do to Combat Global Warming?" onThursday, September 30, at 7:30pm in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, this year's Robert H. Woodworth Lecture in the Sciences, is free and open to the public.
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Broecker, who coined the term "global warming" in the title of a 1975 article in Science magazine, was one of the first modern scientists to emphasize the threat of human-induced climate change. Today, he has taken the controversial position that emission reductions alone will not sufficiently address the threats of human-induced warming; instead, he advocates for the development of carbon sequestration technologies. The author of more than 450 journal articles and 10 books, Broecker is the recipient of the 2006 Crafoord Prize-considered comparable to the Nobel Prize-for his pioneering research on the global carbon cycle, which established linkages between the ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere.
Following his lecture, on Friday, October 1, Broecker will lead a research seminar on "Water in the Western US: Lessons From the Past," at 1:00 pm in the College's Dickinson Science Building, Room 225. This is also free and open to the public.